I was cleaning up an Oracle 12c R2 database prior to reinstalling IBM MDM AE 11.5.0.5, and hit a small glitch with two of the tablespaces: -
drop tablespace LongSpace;
drop tablespace LongSpace
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace 'LONGSPACE' does not exist
even though it really does exist: -
select tablespace_name, con_id from cdb_tablespaces;
TABLESPACE_NAME CON_ID
------------------------------ ----------
SYSTEM0
SYSAUX0
UNDOTBS10
TEMP0
USERS0
IndexSpace0
LongSpace0
7 rows selected.
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace 'LONGSPACE' does not exist
even though it really does exist: -
select tablespace_name, con_id from cdb_tablespaces;
TABLESPACE_NAME CON_ID
------------------------------ ----------
SYSTEM0
SYSAUX0
UNDOTBS10
TEMP0
USERS0
IndexSpace0
LongSpace0
7 rows selected.
The solution, as ever, was simple: -
drop tablespace "IndexSpace";
Tablespace dropped.
Tablespace dropped.
drop tablespace "LongSpace";
Tablespace dropped.
Tablespace dropped.
That'll teach me to use mixed-case tablespace names !