Where do the segments belong after the drop of tablespace...?????

Question

Hi ,
After a tablespace drop solely .... what is happening with its included segments....., i mean where would they belong to.... to SYSTEM tablespace...?????
NOTE: I use Oracle10g on Windows XP platform......
Thanks , a lot
Simon

Answer 1

Hi ,
The following portion of document is from an Oracle documentation :
"To drop a tablespace, use the DROP TABLESPACE statement. The following statement drops the users tablespace, including the segments in the tablespace:
DROP TABLESPACE users INCLUDING CONTENTS;
If the tablespace is empty (does not contain any tables, views, or other structures), you do not need to specify the INCLUDING CONTENTS clause. Use the CASCADE CONSTRAINTS clause to drop all referential integrity constraints from tables outside the tablespace that refer to primary and unique keys of tables inside the tablespace.
To delete the datafiles associated with a tablespace at the same time that the tablespace is dropped, use the INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES clause. The following statement drops the users tablespace and its associated datafiles:
DROP TABLESPACE users INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;
"So , from the above , i understand that :
1) if i specify DROP TABLESPACE USERS.... then the tablespace db object is dropped only.... not datafiles , not segments......So , my question is where these segments belong to ....afterwards????
2) if i specify DROP TABLESPACE users INCLUDING CONTENTS ... then the tablespace db object is dropped as well as the segments included in it.....Not the datafiles....
3) if i specify DROP TABLESPACE users INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES... then the tablespace db object is dropped , the segments and datafiles ,as well ....
Are the above considerations correct...?????
Many thanks ,
Simon
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