ORA-01659: Unable to Allocate MINEXTENTS Beyond String in Tablespace String

I got ” ORA-01659: Unable to Allocate MINEXTENTS Beyond String in Tablespace String”  error in Oracle database.

ORA-01659: Unable to Allocate MINEXTENTS Beyond String in Tablespace String

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-01659: unable to allocate MINEXTENTS beyond string in tablespace string

Cause: Failed to find sufficient contiguous space to allocate MINEXTENTS for the segment being created.

Action: Use ALTER TABLESPACE ADD DATAFILE to add additional space to the tablespace or retry with smaller value for MINEXTENTS, NEXT or PCTINCREASE

unable to allocate MINEXTENTS beyond string in tablespace string

This ORA-01659 error is related with the Failed to find sufficient contiguous space to allocate MINEXTENTS for the segment being created.

To solve this error, Use ALTER TABLESPACE ADD DATAFILE to add additional space to the tablespace or retry with smaller value for MINEXTENTS, NEXT or PCTINCREASE.

OR

You can coalesce the tablespace as follows.

alter tablespace tablespace_namecoalesce;

OR

You should remove all storage clauses from the table script and use the default MINEXTENTS for each tablespace.

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