Friday, 24 July 2009

Parts of the Database (3)

What are Tablespaces

A tablespace is made from at least one datafile. Many datafiles can be within a tablespace. This is a logical grouping of datafiles.

A datafile cannot be split between tablespaces or shared and is exclusively used by a tablespace.

There are two types of tablespace permanent and temporary.

A permanent tablespace contains data pertinent to the database and is non-transitive, the data remains.

A temporary tablespace is transitive in nature. The data is volatile, and consists of space set aside for large data sorts and intermediate results in the query process.

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