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Common Questions/Top Issues Related to Compression Advisor e.g. ORA-20000, ORA-30562, ORA-00922 (Doc ID 1506214.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

 This article intends to answer common questions about Compression Advisor, and aims to help fixing common errors while using it.

Questions and Answers

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In this Document
Purpose
Questions and Answers
 What is Compression Advisor
 Where can i find the Compression Advisor, and how to use.
 What are tables DBMS_TABCOMP_TEMP_UNCMP and DBMS_TABCOMP_TEMP_UNCMP
 Can i disable Compression Advisor without disabling the Automatic Segment Advisor
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-20000: Compression Advisor must have at least 1000000 rows in this table/partition segment
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-30562: SAMPLE percentage must be in the range [0.000001,100)
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-20000: Compression Advisor TEMP UNCMP table failure
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-20000: For OLTP compression, specify partition (or subpartition) name for partitioned tables.
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-01536: space quota exceeded for tablespace 'USERS'
 Compression Advisor fails with ORA-00922: missing or invalid option
 Statistics collection throws error ORA-20000: Unable to set values for table DBMS_TABCOMP_TEMP_UNCMP: does not exist or insufficient privileges
 Export (exp/expdp) errors out with ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
 Recommended patch level
References

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