Re: How does dropping a partition affect the rest of the table?

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Cherie_Machler_at_gelco.com wrote:
> I've looked through the on-line documentation on dropping partitions
> but I have not seen the following question specifically addressed:
>
> How does dropping a date-range partition affect the rest of the
> table/partitions?

New data will be inserted into the next-highest partition. Current data in the partition will be lost.

> Can I drop an unneeded partition on the fly? What is the
> effect on performance of the rest of the table? Does anything
> need to be brought offline before I drop the desired partition?

The hit will be in rebuilding the indexes. Unless you have a large number of extents in the partition, it will drop very quickly - quick enough not to be noticeable unless a user is running a query or transaction against the data in the partition (the query/transaction will fail).

Cheers,
GC

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