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OCM tables preventing shrinking of datafile

edited Dec 10, 2013 2:33AM in Managing Databases using Enterprise Manager (MOSC) 5 commentsAnswered
I have a tablespace which is allocated circa 22Gb, but which only contains about 5 Mb of data.  I would like to reclaim this wasted space however there are a number of tables which seem to belong to OCM which have extents deep into the datafile, but when I try to move these tables to another tablespace I get ORA-00997.  When I look at the tables it is due to them having LONG RAW columns.  First of all can somebody explain why a recent version of Oracle software would have a column created using a LONG datatype when Oracle tells

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