ORA-00972 Identifier is too long: while creating tablespace

Question

This is a practice assignment where I have to create a table space with two datafiles. We have to use the exact naming conventions that are given to us. I believe I have it right, but I get this error: "ORA-00972: identifier is too long". I think I'm getting this because the path and filename are so long. The question is, how do I get around this?

Thanks!

CREATE TABLESPACE CTTT444_tbs
DATAFILE "C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_1.dbf" SIZE 15M,
DATAFILE "C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_2.dbf" SIZE 15M,
AUTOEXTEND ON
NEXT 5m
MAXSIZE 100m);

Answer 1

File specification should be single quotes. Try:

CREATE TABLESPACE CTTT444_tbs
DATAFILE 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_1.dbf' SIZE 15M,
DATAFILE 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_2.dbf' SIZE 15M
AUTOEXTEND ON
NEXT 5m
MAXSIZE 100m;

It also looks like you have some syntax errors in the command (such as the right parenthesis).

Answer 2

FYI for those with the same issue. This seemed to work for me.

CREATE TABLESPACE CTTT444_tbs
DATAFILE 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_1.dbf' SIZE 15M,
 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444_2.dbf' SIZE 15M
AUTOEXTEND ON
NEXT 5m
MAXSIZE 100m;

OR

CREATE TABLESPACE CTTT444_tbs
DATAFILE 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444.dbf' SIZE 15M
AUTOEXTEND ON
NEXT 5m
MAXSIZE 100m;

ALTER TABLESPACE CMIS420_tbs ADD DATAFILE 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\cttt444.dbf' SIZE 15M;