RE: RE: tuning a massive delete

Ryan - One solution that is often suggested would be to copy the rows you wish to retain to another table, then truncate the table. Oracle is relatively slow at deletes compared to inserts. Would this method work for you?

Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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i explain planned it and it was much worse than not exists.

my understanding is hash_aj is faster when the table in the sub-query returns results that are significantly less than the one in the outer table.

ill try it, but i think exists is faster. we dont want to do an index scan here and my hash_area_size isnt real big.
>
> From: "Richard Ji" <Richard.Ji_at_ztango.com>
> Date: 2003/09/17 Wed PM 12:04:56 EDT
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> Subject: RE: tuning a massive delete
>
> Try anti hash join.
>
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>
> i have a table with 27 million records that is about 1.2 GB in size. I
have a 'staging table' with 18 million records. 16 million records have a 'delete' flag. I have indexed the column in staging with a delete flag. both tables have indexed primary keys. Is the following my fastest option or would an 'IN' be faster? Im concerned because this has been running for a while and have alot of consistent gets but no 'writes' yet which tells me its still building the join. Our sort_area_size is rather small and Im not allowed to change it which tells me we are swapping to the temp tablespace.
>
> anyway to speed this up? or is this the fastest we got?
>
>
> create table ani_prx_new parallel (degree 5) nologging
> as select *
> from ani_prx b
> where not exists (select 1 from bo_owner_stage.ani_prx a where ba_reccode
= 'V' and a.cusip = b.cusip
> and a.fund_no = b.fund_no and a.add_cymd = b.add_cymd)
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