ORA-01653: unable to extend table by in tablespace ORA-06512

51
votes

I tried to generate some test data by running the following sql.

BEGIN    
  FOR i IN 1..8180 LOOP
    insert into SPEEDTEST
    select 'column1', 'column2', 'column3', 'column4', 'column5', 'column6', 'column7', 'column8', 'column9', 'column10', 'column11', 'column12', 'column13', 'column14', 'column15', 'column16', 'column17', 'column18', 'column19', 'column20', 'column21', 'column22', 'column23', 'column24', 'column25', 'column26', 'column27', 'column28', 'column29', 'column30', 'column31', 'column32', 'column33', 'column34', 'column35', 'column36', 'column37', 'column38', 'column39', 'column40', 'column41', 'column42', 'column43', 'column44', 'column45', 'column46', 'column47', 'column48', 'column49', 'column50', 'column51', 'column52', 'column53', 'column54', 'column55', 'column56', 'column57', 'column58', 'column59', 'column60', 'column61', 'column62', 'column63', 'column64', 'column65', 'column66', 'column67', 'column68', 'column69', 'column70', 'column71', 'column72', 'column73', 'column74', 'column75', 'column76', 'column77', 'column78', 'column79', 'column80', 'column81', 'column82', 'column83', 'column84', 'column85', 'column86', 'column87', 'column88', 'column89', 'column90', 'column91', 'column92', 'column93', 'column94', 'column95', 'column96', 'column97', 'column98', 'column99', 'column100', i from dual;
  END LOOP;
END;
/
commit;

and it gave me following error:

ORA-01653: unable to extend table LEGAL.SPEEDTEST by 128 in tablespace LEGAL_DATA
ORA-06512: at line 4

Which indicates that I ran out of space, how do I add more and how to know how much do I need? What 128 stands for?

3
oracletablespace
Stands for bytes.Oracle uses tablespaces to store data.Here is an exaple where you add a datafile to a tablesapce ALTER TABLESPACE LEGAL_DATA ADD DATAFILE ‘/u01/oradata/ userdata03. dbf’ SIZE 200M; Make sure you cahnge it to your address – Mihai
Or resize an existing datafile alter database datafile '<full_file_name>' resize <size>M; – Mihai

3 Answers

63
votes

Just add a new datafile for the existing tablespace

ALTER TABLESPACE LEGAL_DATA ADD DATAFILE '/u01/oradata/userdata03.dbf' SIZE 200M;

To find out the location and size of your data files:

SELECT FILE_NAME, BYTES FROM DBA_DATA_FILES WHERE TABLESPACE_NAME = 'LEGAL_DATA';
50
votes

You could also turn on autoextend for the whole database using this command:

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'C:\ORACLEXE\APP\ORACLE\ORADATA\XE\SYSTEM.DBF'
AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 1M MAXSIZE 1024M;

Just change the filepath to point to your system.dbf file.

Credit Here

0
votes

To resolve this error:

ORA-01653 unable to extend table by 1024 in tablespace your-tablespace-name

Just run this PL/SQL command for extended tablespace size automatically on-demand:

alter database datafile '<your-tablespace-name>.dbf' autoextend on maxsize unlimited;

I get this error in import big dump file, just run this command without stopping import routine or restarting the database.

Note: each data file has a limit of 32GB of size if you need more than 32GB you should add a new data file to your existing tablespace.

More info: alter_autoextend_on