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Managing Database Storage Structures

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:
• Describe how table row data is stored in blocks
• Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
• Create and manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information
• Describe the main concepts and functionality
of Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

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 Storage Structures
Logical Physical

Database

Tablespace OS file

Segment

Extent

Oracle data OS
block block

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 How Table Data Is Stored

Columns Blocks

Table A Table B

Rows

Segment Segment

Table
Tablespace

Row piece Extent

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 Anatomy of a Database Block

Block header
Growth
Free space

Row data

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 Tablespaces and Data Files

The Oracle database stores data logically in

tablespaces and physically in data files.
• Tablespaces:
– Can belong to only one database
– Consist of one or more data files
– Are further divided into logical units of storage
• Data files:
Database
– Can belong to only one
Tablespace
tablespace and one database
– Are a repository for schema
object data
Data files

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 Space Management in Tablespaces

• Locally managed tablespace:

– Free extents are managed in the tablespace.
– A bitmap is used to record free extents.
– Each bit corresponds to a block or group of blocks.
– The bit value indicates free or used extents.
– The use of locally managed tablespaces is
recommended.
• Dictionary-managed tablespace:
– Free extents are managed by the data dictionary.
– Appropriate tables are updated when extents are
allocated or unallocated.
– These tablespaces are supported only for backward
compatibility.

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 Creating a New Tablespace

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 Creating a New Tablespace
(Notes Only Slide)

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 Storage for Locally Managed Tablespaces

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 Storage for Locally Managed Tablespaces
Full Notes Page

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 Tablespaces in the Preconfigured
Database

• SYSTEM • UNDOTBS1
• SYSAUX • USERS
• TEMP • EXAMPLE

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 Tablespaces in the
Preconfigured Database
Full Notes Page

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 Altering a Tablespace

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 Altering a Tablespace
Full Notes Page

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 Altering a Tablespace
Full Notes Page

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 Actions with Tablespaces

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 Actions with Tablespaces
Full Notes Page

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 Dropping Tablespaces

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 Viewing Tablespace Information

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 Where We Are

• Using tablespaces to separate data

• Creating various types of tablespaces
• Managing tablespaces
• Obtaining tablespace information
• Describe the main concepts and functionality
of Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

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 What Is Automatic Storage Management?

• Is a portable and high-performance

cluster file system
• Manages Oracle database files Application
• Spreads data across disks
to balance load Database
• Mirrors data File
• Solves many storage system
ASM
management challenges Volume
manager

Operating system

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 ASM: Key Features and Benefits

• Stripes files, but not logical volumes

• Provides online disk reconfiguration and dynamic
rebalancing
• Allows for adjustable rebalancing speed
• Provides redundancy on a per-file basis
• Supports only Oracle database files
• Is cluster aware
• Is automatically installed

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 ASM: Concepts

ASM
Database
disk group

Tablespace Data file ASM file

Segment ASM disk

File system
Extent
file Allocation unit
or
Raw device
Oracle data
block Physical
block

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Describe how table row data is stored in blocks
• Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
• Create and manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information
• Describe the main concepts and functionality of
ASM, such as:
– Disk mirroring
– Dynamic rebalancing
– ASM disk groups

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 Practice Overview:
Managing Database Storage Structures

This practice covers the following topics:

• Creating tablespaces
• Gathering information about tablespaces

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