Tablespace Management in Oracle

Tablespace : A tablespace is a storage location, where the objects are stored like tables, indexes, functions, procedures... Tablespace is intermediate between logical and physical components of oracle. A tablespace is made up of one or more datafiles.

Types of Tablespaces:

1. User data tablespaces
2. Temp Tablespaces
3. Undo Tablespaces

Segment: Segment is a database object , which is allocated to some space to it. Segments are consists one or more extents. A segment can span to one tablespace.

Extents: Extent is a contiguous oracle data bocks. Extents are allocated to segments.


Blocks: Block is a smallest unit of storage in oracle. By default oracle block size is 8k.


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