Basic Oracle Concepts and Programming Question:
How To Drop a Tablespace?
Answer:
If you have an existing tablespace and you don't want it anymore. You can delete a tablespace by using the DROP TABLESPACE statement as shown in the example below:
SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE my_space
2 DATAFILE '/temp/my_space.dbf' SIZE 10M;
Tablespace created.
SQL> DROP TABLESPACE my_space;
Tablespace dropped.
SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE my_space
2 DATAFILE '/temp/my_space.dbf' SIZE 10M;
Tablespace created.
SQL> DROP TABLESPACE my_space;
Tablespace dropped.
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