topic Re: schema table storage size in Operating System - HP-UX

schema table storage size

Edgar_8 — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 08:40:33 GMT

Hi,

We have a DB schema with many daily tables within a specific tablespace, what formula can one use to determine
what the space capacity(in GB/GB) a particular table is consuming within its tablespace.

Thanks in advance!

Re: schema table storage size

Fred Ruffet — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:46:41 GMT

select
tablespace_name,
segment_type,
segment_name,
sum(bytes)/(1024*1024) size_gb
from
dba_segments
group by
tablespace_name,
segment_type,
segment_name;

Regards,

Fred

Re: schema table storage size

Indira Aramandla — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:07:28 GMT

Hi Edgar,

In addition to what Fred said, to determine Real Space used by a Table ie. are not empty,
you can do by the ROWID.

Each row in the table has pseudocolumn called ROWID. This pseudo contains information about physical location of the row in format block_number.row.file

If the table is stored in a tablespace which has one datafile, all we have to do is to get DISTINCT number of block_number from ROWID column of this table.

But if the table is stored in a tablespace with more than one datafile then you can have the same block_number but in different datafiles so we have to get DISTINCT number of block_number+file from ROWID.

The SELECT statements which give us the number of "really used" blocks is below. They are different for ORACLE 7 and ORACLE 8 because of different structure of ROWID column in these versions.
For ORACLE 7:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT SUBSTR(rowid,15,4)||
SUBSTR(rowid,1,8)) "Used"
FROM schema.table;

For ORACLE 8+:

SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT
DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(rowid)||
DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(rowid)) "Used"
FROM schema.table;
or

SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT SUBSTR(rowid,1,15)) "Used"
FROM schema.table;

You could ask why the above information could not be determined by using the ANALYZE TABLE command. The ANALYZE TABLE command only identifies the number of 'ever' used blocks or the high water mark for the table.

I hipe this helps.

Indira A

Re: schema table storage size

Edgar_8 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:18:24 GMT

Hi Indira,

Thanks for the info. The value returned is it the no. of bytes/kb/Mb/Gb? Or does one have to do a conversion?

Thanks in advance!

Re: schema table storage size

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:42:42 GMT

hi,

some more clarifications and summary.

consider the attached script free.sql

it will generate a report like:
Tablespace Name KBytes Used Free Used Largest
________________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ______ ____________
DRSYS 86,016 4,232 81,784 4.9 81,784
OEM_REPOSITORY 30,728 27,912 2,816 90.8 2,816
...
------------ ------------ ------------
sum 25,699,592 19,860,136 5,839,456

which shows us:

Kbytes = space allocated to the tablespace currently.
Used = space allocated within the tablespace to specific objects
Free = space NOT yet allocated to any objects
Used = % of space allocated to objects in tablespace
Largest= Largest free contigous extent available (NEXT_EXTENTS larger then this will FAIL)

and now, to find the amount of free space within the allocated space, we have 2 choices:

a. analyze tables frequently. Then the "EMPTY_BLOCKS" column in user_tables will be populated

b. use the dbms_space package to find the free space available.

hope this helps!
regards
Yogeeraj

Re: schema table storage size

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:44:03 GMT

free.sql

Re: schema table storage size

Edgar_8 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:59:32 GMT

Hi Yogee,

We need to find out the storage space of a table, not the tablespace size.

Thanks in advance!

Re: schema table storage size

Fred Ruffet — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:07:43 GMT

Edgar,

About Indira's answer : Result is given in blocks. So you will need to convert. Bock size is given in bytes by the oracle parameter db_block_size :
show parameter db_block_size

Note, that it may be a little more complex if you have different block size on your tablespaces.

Regards,

Fred

Re: schema table storage size

Edgar_8 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:27:00 GMT

Hi,

The db_block_size is 8192.Any idea of what the conversion formula would be?

Thanks in advance!

Re: schema table storage size

Fred Ruffet — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:47:20 GMT

to take one example from Indira's answer :

SELECT 8192*(COUNT (DISTINCT DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(rowid)||DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(rowid))) "bytes" FROM table_name;

Regards,

Fred

Re: schema table storage size

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:16:37 GMT

hi,

do you want to:
a. know how much space a table is occupying in a tablespace? or
b. the exact number of Kbytes a table is currently using?

for a:
Total space (bytes)=initial_extent+(number of extents x next_extent)

for b:
Total space (bytes)=num_rows x avg_row_len

These will give you a pretty good approximation.

to be able to use these table statistics, you should first of all gather them using, preferrably, DBMS_STATS.
e.g. exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( ownname => user,tabname => 'T');

hope this helps!
regards
Yogeeraj