Encountering exception ORA-01555

I was given a problem to solve , in which there is table called Scenarios in the Master Db which contains the details of all the Tablespace for which I have to find the size. The O/P should contain Table size(actually consumed) and index size and no of rows.

So, I wrote a sizing script(PL/SQL) to find the size of all the Table Space on that particular DB server.

But I am getting this particular exception after it runs for days.

ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 9 with name "_SYSSMU9$" too small

I am not sure what might be causing this, as the data size is not that huge.

I am attaching the Script

```
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON size '10000000'
declare
TYPE cur_typ IS REF CURSOR;
a_Temp number := 0;
x_Total number := 0;
i number := 0;
c_cursor cur_typ;
query_str varchar2(500);
num_long Long;
currentScenarioDB nvarchar2(255);
tableExists number := 0;
scenarioId varchar2(50);
scenarioName varchar2(100);
dbIdentifier nvarchar2(50);
queryToFindScenarioNameAndId varchar2(400) := 'select scenarioId,name from scenarios where dbidentifier = ';
selectQuery varchar2(400) := 'select scenarioId,name from scenarios where dbidentifier = ';
insertStatement varchar2(2000) := 'Insert Into ScenarioTableAndIndexSize values (:1,:2,:3,:4,:5,:6,:7) ';
-- scenarioId,scenarioname,,dbIdentifier,tablename,dataSize,IndexSize,rowNumber
tableIndexSize number := 0;
numOfRows number := 0;
rowNum number := 0;
tableDataSize number := 0;
Cursor getScenarioDb is select dbidentifier from scenarios where dbidentifier IN (select Distinct(TABLESPACE_NAME) from dba_tables);
begin
DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(10000000);
execute immediate 'truncate table ScenarioTableAndIndexSize';
open getScenarioDb;
fetch getScenarioDb into currentScenarioDB;
while getScenarioDb%found
loop
queryToFindScenarioNameAndId := selectQuery || '''' || currentScenarioDB || '''';
execute immediate queryToFindScenarioNameAndId into scenarioId,scenarioName;
declare
queryToFindNoofRows varchar2(100

Gaius is right, use DBA_TABLES for NUM_ROWS and DBA_SEGMENTS for size:

select owner,table_name,num_rows,last_analyzed from dba_tables;

The num_rows count is as of LAST_ANALYZED date, which should be close enough even without running DBMS_STATS.

For sizing:

select owner,segment_type,sum(bytes)/1024/1024 size_mb
from dba_segments
group by owner,segment_type;

or (depending what level of details you need):

select owner,segment_name,sum(bytes)/1024/1024 size_mb
from dba_segments
group by owner,segment_name;

For LOBs you'll need to join it to DBA_LOBS, for indexes to DBA_INDEXES, for tables to DBA_TABLES. A lot will depend on your specific requirement. Since you mentioned you are trying to figure out used space in tablespace it might be as simple as:

select sum(bytes)/1024/1024 size_mb
from dba_segments
where tablespace_name='YOUR_TBLSP_NAME';

Your solution would really work only with small DB as it would not be feasible to read all data on large DB.

I am hesitant to post how to address ORA-1555 as in this case this it NOT your primary issue but just for completeness - you are on 10g using automatic undo management so your DBA would have to increase undo_retention in your database (the ixora link is relevant to a DB without auto undo management).

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