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Shrink tables in database

edited Mar 10, 2013 4:21PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 6 commentsAnswered ✓
Dear All,
I would like to ask regarding to shrink.
Now in my database is nearly out of space, and I do not want to add more datafile right now.
Thus, I would like to ask whether can shrink help this case. However, when I select free space of each datafile, there is very little free space (less that 1GB).

SQL> select sum(bytes)/1024/1024/1024 from dba_free_space where tablespace_name = 'T24DATAXML' and file_id=7;

SUM(BYTES)/1024/1024/1024
-------------------------
                .00793457

totally, I have 51 datafiles, but only about 10 datafiles got free space with similar value as abov.
my question is that should I shrink in this case ?

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