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... and if your table is not partitioned, consider using
'CREATE TABLE AS' with WHERE clause that eliminates the
rows you wish to delete, recreate indexes and constraints
on the new table, drop the old table, rename the new to
the old.
Keep in mind that stored procedures and triggers that
reference the table will need to be recompiled.
Jared
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 14:44, Jacques Kilchoer wrote:
> This is one of the cases where a partitioned table can be of great use. What version of Oracle? Standard or Enterprise Edition?
> With a partitioned table you can say
> alter table ... drop partition ... ;
> to easily get rid of a large chunk of data and release the space.
>
> See
> Oracle9i Database Concepts Release 2 (9.2)
> Part Number A96524-01
> Chapter 11
> Partitioned Tables and Indexes
> http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/c12parti.htm#464767
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/362ba
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Nguyen, David M
>
> I am using delete command to delete million records in several tables to free up space in tablespace. I understand delete command does not release unused spaces as truncate command but I could not use truncate to delete ALL records in table as I need to keep one month old of records in table. Please advise a better method I can use to free up spaces.
> Thanks,
> David
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