SAP data files

Hi
My SAP version is ECC 5.0 with oracle 9.2.0.7 on SOLARIS 10.
My current DB size is 300GB where i have 23 data files on my oracle/<SID>/sapdata1...4
I have implemented MM,FICO,PP,QM modules.My monthly DB growth rate is 30-35 GB.
My Questions
01.Is this growing rate is acceptable.If not how can i find the error.
02.PSAP<SID> table space is the place where my data is written.I have to keep on monitoring the space on this table space and i have to manually extend that once it is filled.Why do i need to do this whwre i have enable "AUTOEXTEND ON" and why it is not automatically extend.
03.Table reqorganization/Index Rebuilding is not giving me any gain and why?
Pls give me your feed back.
With the current growing rate i can go for another 1.5 yrs but after that what should i do..
Roshantha

Hi,
Including the brtools,
>> we are using Oracle 10g on RHEL5.4 64Bit i want to move all my sap data files along with Temp are there any specific notes that i need to follow apart form 868750 and there is no mention of Temp file in this note.
You can move all the datafiles including TEMP tablespace, by the statement, below;
ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE '<old_full_path>' TO '<new_full_path>';
>> Apart from this i want to know what changes need to be done in the control file for the information of the new file system,so that the database can be started using changed control file having information of the renamed and moved file system.
You will not change anything on control files, manually. It will be updated after you executed the statement, respectfully
>> Are there any oracle parameters or profile parameters that needs to be changed and how much downtime is required.
No you don't need to change any database profile parameter after you move the datafile(s). If you prepare a script and execute it, it will be done in a few seconds. This is because only configuration will be updated. The datafiles will not be created from the scratch.
Best regards,
Orkun Gedik

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