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ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace C
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This error indicates that there isn't a large enough amount of contiguous free space in your tablespace to allocate the initial extent. Either your tablespace is almost full, or just fragmented.
If your problem is fragmentation rather than lack of space, you should be able to fix this error by reducing the size of your initial space allocation or by reorganizing the tablespace to eliminate fragmentation. Otherwise you will have to add more space. You can do this either by adding a new datafile or expanding an existing datafile. I know of no way to do this "temporarily". If you later find you don't need the extra space you can resize your datafiles to decrease the allocated space.
Also double check your initial allocation for reasonableness. It's possible to put in an extra zero and end up trying to create something that's much larger than you expect.
If your problem is fragmentation rather than lack of space, you should be able to fix this error by reducing the size of your initial space allocation or by reorganizing the tablespace to eliminate fragmentation. Otherwise you will have to add more space. You can do this either by adding a new datafile or expanding an existing datafile. I know of no way to do this "temporarily". If you later find you don't need the extra space you can resize your datafiles to decrease the allocated space.
Also double check your initial allocation for reasonableness. It's possible to put in an extra zero and end up trying to create something that's much larger than you expect.
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