This is some code how to correctly shrink a datafile.
set linesize 1000 pagesize 0 feedback off trimspool on with hwm as ( -- get highest block id from each datafiles ( from x$ktfbue as we don't need all joins from dba_extents ) select /*+ materialize */ ktfbuesegtsn ts#,ktfbuefno relative_fno,max(ktfbuebno+ktfbueblks-1) hwm_blocks from sys.x$ktfbue group by ktfbuefno,ktfbuesegtsn ), hwmts as ( -- join ts# with tablespace_name select name tablespace_name,relative_fno,hwm_blocks from hwm join v$tablespace using(ts#) ), hwmdf as ( -- join with datafiles, put 5M minimum for datafiles with no extents select file_name,nvl(hwm_blocks*(bytes/blocks),5*1024*1024) hwm_bytes,bytes,autoextensible,maxbytes from hwmts right join dba_data_files using(tablespace_name,relative_fno) ) select case when autoextensible='YES' and maxbytes>=bytes then -- we generate resize statements only if autoextensible can grow back to current size '/* reclaim '||to_char(ceil((bytes-hwm_bytes)/1024/1024),999999) ||'M from '||to_char(ceil(bytes/1024/1024),999999)||'M */ ' ||'alter database datafile '''||file_name||''' resize '||ceil(hwm_bytes/1024/1024)||'M;' else -- generate only a comment when autoextensible is off '/* reclaim '||to_char(ceil((bytes-hwm_bytes)/1024/1024),999999) ||'M from '||to_char(ceil(bytes/1024/1024),999999) ||'M after setting autoextensible maxsize higher than current size for file ' || file_name||' */' end SQL from hwmdf where bytes-hwm_bytes>1024*1024 -- resize only if at least 1MB can be reclaimed order by bytes-hwm_bytes desc /