You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to alter tables as follows:
Switch on table monitoring
Switch off table monitoring
Set parallel degree
Shrink tables (Oracle 10g or higher)
This section describes how you alter tables with BR*Tools.
For more information on the approach to altering tables, see Segment Management.
Only BasicFile LOBs are shrunk while shrinking tables.
Start the procedure using BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line:
BRGUI or BRTOOLS:
Choose
BRGUI or BRTOOLS displays the menu BRSPACE options for alter tables, where you specify the options with which you call BRSPACE.
Set the required options:
Menu Entry |
Equivalent BRSPACE Command Option |
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BRSPACE profile (profile) |
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Database user/password (user) |
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Alter table action (action) |
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Tablespace names (tablespace) |
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Table owner (owner) |
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Table names (table) |
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Confirmation mode (confirm) |
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Extended output |
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Scrolling line count (scroll) |
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Message language (language) |
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BRSPACE command line (command) |
This shows you the BRSPACE -f tbalter command that is to be executed using the current settings. |
If required, in Table names you can enter the names of multiple tables. You can also use wildcards. For more information, see “Selecting Objects” in Segment Management with BR*Tools.
In Tablespace names and Table owner, you can specify multiple objects but you cannot use wildcards. BRSPACE processes all the tables in the specified tablespace name(s) or all tables belonging to the specified table owner(s). But these entries and alter action entry are optional.
Choose Continue.
BRGUI or BRTOOLS prompts you to start BRSPACE.
Choose Continue to start BRSPACE.
Command line:
Enter at least the following command:
brspace -f tbalter
You can enter more parameters, including the table names and action, if required. For more information, see BRSPACE -f tbalter.
Whichever way you start the procedure - with BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line - you can use quick mode if you know the final object names, in this case the table names. For more information, see How to Use BR*Tools.
BRSPACE starts and you see a message that includes Start of BRSPACE processing. From now on, BRSPACE writes a detail log.
BRSPACE displays the Alter tables main menu.
You can use quick mode as follows:
If you have already entered the action, continue with step 4.
If you have already entered the table names and action, continue with step 6.
If you have entered multiple tables, BRSPACE displays as confirmation a List of tables for alter. If you have not already made a final selection, you can make a selection from this list.
Continue with step 6 (quick mode).
Choose or confirm the required action:
Switch on table monitoring
Switch off table monitoring
Set parallel degree
Shrink table segment
Create table segment
Drop table segment
If you have already entered the table names, continue with step 6 (quick mode).
BRSPACE displays the table list:
List Entry |
Meaning |
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Pos. |
List sequence number |
Owner |
Table owner |
Table |
Table name |
Part. |
Partitioned |
Parts |
Number of partitions |
Monit. |
Table monitoring setting |
Paral. |
Parallel degree |
BRSPACE only displays the tables that can be processed by your chosen action.
For example, if you choose Switch off table monitoring, only the tables that currently have table monitoring on are displayed.
Select a table or multiple tables.
These examples only apply to input in character mode.
To select the first three tables in the list, enter 1-3.
To select the first and third tables, enter 1,3.
To select the first three tables and the fifth, enter 1-3,5.
To select all tables, enter 0.
BRSPACE displays the menu Options for alter of tables.
Set the required options:
Menu Entry |
Meaning |
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Current monitoring status (currmonit) - display only |
Current monitoring status of the table |
Current parallel degree (currdeg) - display only |
Current parallel degree of the table |
Alter table action (action) - display only |
The action that you selected above |
New parallel degree (degree) |
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SQL command line (command) |
The SQL command that is to be executed using the current settings. For more information, see your Oracle SQL documentation. |
To start processing with the selected options, choose Continue.
Check the results in the BRSPACE logs BRSPACE Logs.
The summary log space<DBSID>.log displays the return code.
The detail log s<encoded timestamp>.tba displays the details.
For more information about how to view the logs with BR*Tools, see Showing Profiles and Logs with BR*Tools.