ORA-01654: unable to extend index error

No offense, it's really bad to put indexes on SYSTEM tablespace.

i see the change of user default tablespace is long overdue...


SQL>alter user <user_name> default tablespace <tablespace_name> quota unlimited on <tablespace_name>;

before rebuilding this index, you can workaround that ORA-1654 error,
by increasing the size of SYSTEM tablespace

alter database datafile '<system file path>' resize <a higher size>M;

You can rebuild the index on a running system without any ill effects. If the table is locked by another process it will give you a "resource busy" error and you can try it again later.

ALTER INDEX ABC.TRANSACTION_INDEX REBUILD TABLESPACE new_tablespace STORAGE (INITIAL 1M NEXT 1M PCTINCREASE 50);

You could increase the size of INITIAL and NEXT to larger values if the table has a lot of data in it. If you do increase it to larger values, you may be better off with PCTINCREASE 0.

Of course you should also follow the guidelines suggested by seazodiac so that you dont have this problem in future.

No, you cannot do that in Oracle8.

you have to drop the old index and build a new one after you change the default tablespace of the user

@seazodiac

You can definitely do ALTER INDEX REBUILD in Oracle 8.
Maybe you are thinking of ALTER TABLE MOVE ... which was not allowed in 8.0

SDutta
tell me one thing more
if i give command create table table2 as select * from a table1 in new tablespaces
then drop table1 and rename table2 as table1
it is possible? if yes then tell me rename table command otherwise i try ALTER INDEX REBUILD

what is time comparison

Yes you can do it but as soon as you rename the old table its dependent objects may become invalid and have to be recompiled.

You can do "create table table2 as select * from a table1" with storage clause specifying new tablespace name.
Then you can :
RENAME TABLE1 TO TABLE1_BKUP; -- drop it later after you are absolutely sure
RENAME TABLE2 TO TABLE1;

Then create the indexes etc. check for invalid dependents and make them valid.

is it better procedure or tell another procedure to change the tablespaces of a table

Actually i want to change the tablespaces of some tables

SDutta

i execute ALTER INDEX REBUILD
it run successfully without error

Please tell command like ALTER INDEX REBUILD  to alter tablespaces of a table  

Oracle8.1.5 (and higher) supports this command:
alter table [table_name] move [new_tablespace_name];

If you have Oracle8.0.x, that may not be supported.

It is a **BAD** idea to have user tables or indexes in the SYSTEM tablespace!  The problem is, you cannot defragment the SYSTEM tablespace unless you are willing to export the entire database, shut it down, drop the database, create a new database, then run a full import.  Of course, you should never do this unless you take a full backup before you drop it!

All of your tables and indexes that belong to schemas other than SYS and SYSTEM should be in other tablespaces, since you can defragment them, if necessary, with much less risk and effort.

---->?Please tell command like ALTER INDEX REBUILD  to alter tablespaces of a table

You should re-create table in the new tablespace, drop the old one.

if i create table by create table as command then what about
as per SDutta

Yes you can do it but as soon as you rename the old table its dependent objects may become invalid and have to be recompiled.

i do not understand recompiled dependent objects.

tell the procedure if i followed this way