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Tables spanning across multiple datafiles

Feb 21, 2003
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>>Script Language and Platform: Oracle 8+
This script is useful for finding out how rows in a table are spread across different datafiles and how many rows are there in each datafile for that table.

Author: K.Chithra

ACCEPT OWNER CHAR PROMPT “ENTER OWNER NAME : ”
ACCEPT TABNAME CHAR PROMPT “ENTER TABLE NAME : ”
COL count Heading “Rows”
COL name HEADING “File Namefor a60
set verify off 
select name ,t.count from
v$datafile d,
(select count(*) count ,dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) file#
from &&OWNER..&&TABNAME group by dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid)) t
where t.file#=d.file#
/
undefine OWNER
undefine TABNAME 
****************
Ouput will be like :
File Name Rows
———————————————————— ———-
/ausdb/cre/ORACLE/dbase007/o_sem_01.dbf 15572
/ausdb/cre/ORACLE/dbase017/p_sem_02.dbf 1572
/ausdb/cre/ORACLE/dbase019/p_sem_03.dbf 10072



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