Lesson 12 - Managing Tables

08/15/1999


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Table of Contents

Managing Tables

Objectives

Storing User Data

Structure of a Row

Oracle Data Types

Data Types for Storing Large Objects

ROWID Data Type

Restricted ROWID

Collections

Creating a Table

Creating a Table: Guidelines

Setting PCTFREE and PCTUSED

Row Migration and Chaining

Copying an Existing Table

Changing Storage and Block Utilization Parameters

Manually Allocating Extents

High Water Mark

Finding the High Water Mark: DBMS_SPACE.UNUSED_SPACE

Deallocation of Unused Space

Truncating a Table

Dropping Tables

Validating Table Structure

Detecting Row Migration

Retrieving Table Information

Retrieving Extent Information

DBMS_ROWID Package

Summary

Author: Oracle

Email: melody@ecst.csuchico.edu

Home Page: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~melody

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