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creating bigfile tablespace with maxsize 32T fails with ORA-00740 (Doc ID 3049945.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Applies to:

Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

 

The manual says the maximum size of a bigfile tablespace is 32 TB.

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https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/refrn/physical-database-limits.html#GUID-939CB455-783E-458A-A2E8-81172B990FE9
A.2 Physical Database Limits

Bigfile Tablespaces

Number of blocks

A bigfile tablespace contains only one datafile or tempfile, which can contain up to approximately 4 billion ( 232 ) blocks.
The maximum size of the single datafile or tempfile is 128 terabytes (TB) for a tablespace with 32 K blocks and 32 TB for a tablespace with 8 K blocks.
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Cause

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