DBA_TABLESPACES

DBA_TABLESPACES describes all tablespaces in the database.

Related View

USER_TABLESPACES describes the tablespaces accessible to the current user. This view does not display the PLUGGED_IN column.


Column Datatype NULL Description

TABLESPACE_NAME

VARCHAR2(30)

NOT NULL

Name of the tablespace

BLOCK_SIZE

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Tablespace block size (in bytes)

INITIAL_EXTENT

NUMBER

 

Default initial extent size (in bytes)

NEXT_EXTENT

NUMBER

 

Default incremental extent size (in bytes)

MIN_EXTENTS

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Default minimum number of extents

MAX_EXTENTS

NUMBER

 

Default maximum number of extents

MAX_SIZE

NUMBER

 

Default maximum size of segments (in Oracle blocks)

PCT_INCREASE

NUMBER

 

Default percent increase for extent size

MIN_EXTLEN

NUMBER

 

Minimum extent size for this tablespace (in bytes)

STATUS

VARCHAR2(9)

 

Tablespace status:

  • ONLINE

  • OFFLINE

  • READ ONLY

CONTENTS

VARCHAR2(9)

 

Tablespace contents:

  • UNDO

  • PERMANENT

  • TEMPORARY

LOGGING

VARCHAR2(9)

 

Default logging attribute:

  • LOGGING

  • NOLOGGING

FORCE_LOGGING

VARCHAR2(3)

 

Indicates whether the tablespace is under force logging mode (YES) or not (NO)

EXTENT_MANAGEMENT

VARCHAR2(10)

 

Indicates whether the extents in the tablespace are dictionary managed (DICTIONARY) or locally managed (LOCAL)

ALLOCATION_TYPE

VARCHAR2(9)

 

Type of extent allocation in effect for the tablespace:

  • SYSTEM

  • UNIFORM

  • USER

PLUGGED_IN

VARCHAR2(3)

 

Indicates whether the tablespace is plugged in (YES) or not (NO)

SEGMENT_SPACE_MANAGEMENT

VARCHAR2(6)

 

Indicates whether the free and used segment space in the tablespace is managed using free lists (MANUAL) or bitmaps (AUTO)

DEF_TAB_COMPRESSION

VARCHAR2(8)

 

Indicates whether default table compression is enabled (ENABLED) or not (DISABLED)

Note: Enabling default table compression indicates that all tables in the tablespace will be created with table compression enabled unless otherwise specified.

RETENTION

VARCHAR2(11)

 

Undo tablespace retention:

  • GUARANTEE - Tablespace is an undo tablespace with RETENTION specified as GUARANTEE

    A RETENTION value of GUARANTEE indicates that unexpired undo in all undo segments in the undo tablespace should be retained even if it means that forward going operations that need to generate undo in those segments fail.

  • NOGUARANTEE - Tablespace is an undo tablespace with RETENTION specified as NOGUARANTEE

  • NOT APPLY - Tablespace is not an undo tablespace

BIGFILE

VARCHAR2(3)

 

Indicates whether the tablespace is a bigfile tablespace (YES) or a smallfile tablespace (NO)

PREDICATE_EVALUATION

VARCHAR2(7)

 

Indicates whether predicates are evaluated by host (HOST) or by storage (STORAGE)

ENCRYPTED

VARCHAR2(3)

 

Indicates whether the tablespace is encrypted (YES) or not (NO)

COMPRESS_FOR

VARCHAR2(30)

 

Default compression for what kind of operations:

  • BASIC

  • ADVANCED

  • QUERY LOW

  • QUERY HIGH1

  • ARCHIVE LOW1

  • ARCHIVE HIGH1

  • NULL

DEF_INMEMORY

VARCHAR2(8)

 

Indicates whether the In-Memory Column Store (IM column store) is by default enabled (ENABLED) or disabled (DISABLED) for tables in this tablespace

DEF_INMEMORY_PRIORITY2

VARCHAR2(8)

 

Indicates the default priority for In-Memory Column Store (IM column store) population for this tablespace. Possible values:

  • LOW

  • MEDIUM

  • HIGH

  • CRITICAL

  • NONE

  • NULL

DEF_INMEMORY_DISTRIBUTE2

VARCHAR2(15)

 

Indicates how the IM column store is distributed by default for this tablespace in an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RACE) environment:

  • AUTO

  • BY ROWID RANGE

  • BY PARTITION

  • BY SUBPARTITION

DEF_INMEMORY_COMPRESSION2

VARCHAR2(17)

 

Indicates the default compression level for the IM column store for this tablespace:

  • NO MEMCOMPRESS

  • FOR DML

  • FOR QUERY [ LOW | HIGH ]

  • FOR CAPACITY [ LOW | HIGH ]

  • NULL

DEF_INMEMORY_DUPLICATE2

VARCHAR2(13)

 

Indicates the duplicate setting for the IM column store in an Oracle RAC environment:

  • NO DUPLICATE

  • DUPLICATE

  • DUPLICATE ALL


See Also:

"USER_TABLESPACES"

1

Hybrid Columnar Compression is a feature of the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Database that is dependent on the underlying storage system. See Oracle Database Concepts for more information.

2

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2).