Rebalance/move or strink oracle undotablespace

Question

I'm running out of space in oradata01 and oradata02. Is there a ways to move or rebalance with oradata03?

/opt/oracle/oradata01/x/undotbs01.dbf   4   100 %   
/opt/oracle/oradata02/x/undotbs02.dbf   17  100 %   
/opt/oracle/oradata03/x/undotbs03.dbf   25  1 % 

Answer 1

If you are on 12c then it's easy - just online move datafile.

SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata02/x/undotbs02.dbf' TO '/opt/oracle/oradata03/x/undotbs02.dbf';

If you are on lower version, and if you can afford stopping instance, then

1) shutdown database

2) move datafile to oradata03 by os command

3) mount database

4) rename datafile

SQL> ALTER DATABASE rename file '/opt/oracle/oradata02/x/undotbs02.dbf' TO '/opt/oracle/oradata03/x/undotbs02.dbf';

If you can't stop the instance, then you can create another undo tablespace and switch to it online. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/undo005.htm#ADMIN11470

You can also try to resize datafiles, it will work, if there are no active/retention undo segments at the end of datafiles.

Answer 2

You can simply create a new undo Ts and drop the old one .

show parameter undo

NAME TYPE VALUE

---

undo_management string AUTO

undo_retention integer 900

undo_tablespace string UNDOTBS1

SQL> CREATE UNDO TABLESPACE undotbs2 DATAFILE '+DATA_NEWPATH' SIZE 100M AUTOEXTEND ON;

http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/AutomaticUndoManagement.php

SQL> alter system set undo_tablespace=undotbs2;

After that can drop UNDOTBS1. Take a look here for more information.

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