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Minimum Size for Bigfile Tablespace in 12c (Doc ID 2076125.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 13, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
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
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

CREATE BIGFILE TABLESPACE "BIG_TBL" DATAFILE '${ORACLE_DB_DATA}/big_tbl1.dbf' SIZE 262144
AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 262144 MAXSIZE 32767M LOGGING ONLINE PERMANENT BLOCKSIZE 8192
 EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE DEFAULT NOCOMPRESS SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;


CREATE BIGFILE TABLESPACE "BIG_TBL" DATAFILE
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03214: File Size specified is smaller than minimum required

Changes

Upgraded to 12c. 

On 11g the minimum is 256K for block size 8K.

 

Cause

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