Then you should have the partitioning option. Partition your table if you can.
> -----Original Message-----
> Nguyen, David M
>
> It's Oracle8i Enterprise Edition.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Jacques Kilchoer
>
> 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/a
> 96524/c12p
> arti.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.
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