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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:33:21+00:00

I would like to have a CI build (e.g., Hudson) set up and tear

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I would like to have a CI build (e.g., Hudson) set up and tear down an Oracle 11g schema as part of a nightly build/test cycle for a fairly vanilla JSF/JPA application.

The most obvious way to do this is by dropping and re-creating all tables. While this feels fairly standard (at least, that’s what the Hibernate/JPA tools would do automatically for you), I’ve had Oracle DBAs warn me that the Oracle catalog will get fragmented after repeated object create/drop cycles. Eventually this will cause performance problems because the SYSTEM tablespace cannot be defragmented/coalesced.

My questions are:

  • is fragmentation a genuine concern, or is not something you need to worry about in a typical webapp development environment?
  • if fragmentation really is a concern, is there a better way to tear down and recreate a schema in Oracle than DROP TABLE/CREATE TABLE?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t believe those DBAs

    At least with 10g and above when using locally managed tablespaces (LMT) this should not be a problem.

    And even if that did cause any fragmentation I very much doubt that you could measure its impact – especially on a database that is used for CI.

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