How To Drop a Tablespace

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How To Drop a Tablespace? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Tablespaces and Data Files

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A

If you have an existing tablespace and you don't want it anymore. You can delete a tablespace by using the DROP TABLESPACE statement as shown in the example below:

SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE my_space 
  2  DATAFILE '/temp/my_space.dbf' SIZE 10M;
Tablespace created.

SQL> DROP TABLESPACE my_space;
Tablespace dropped.

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