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Also because your database blocks end up looking like Swiss cheese.
Pctfree and pctused come to play, I know, but you still lose some space.
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> -----Original Message----- From: C.S.Venkata Subramanian [SMTP:csvenkata_at_lycos.com] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Re-claiming the space from Table after deleteion If we delete data from a table, tables highwater mark doesnot comedown. That's why u cannot reclaim the freespace after deletion from a table.
This FYI&A -- On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 01:56:07 rafi wrote:
>Dear All,
>
> Platform: Solaris 2.6, Oracle: 7.3.4.0
>
>We have a few tables which are growing very fast due to large no of
>insertions. But the data gets obselete after a month and we use a
>procedure to delete the obselete data from the tables.
>
> The problem is that the table does not free the space even
after the deletion of 40% of the data.
>
>How can we re-claim the unused space which got created due to
deletion?
>
>How do we ensure that future inserts are done in this unused space?
>
>
> [We can not try exp/imp or truncate option
> due to the huge size & high activity and
> online use of the tables].
>
>Kind Regards and thanks to all there,
>
>
>Rafi Ahmad
>
>
>
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-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).Received on Fri Mar 09 2001 - 09:07:25 CST
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