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How to SHRINK or Reduce the datafile size by finding the HWM (Doc ID 1600774.1)

Last updated on JULY 05, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

 We need to reduce Disk usage at OS level . The first step for that will be to identify the HWM of datafile . The HWM specifies the limit to which you can resize a datafile.

Solution

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