Slightly related but common trap for new players.
alter table X move nologging;
will move a table WITH logging and then set it to NOLOGGING. Probably not what is intended.
Cheers
Connor
- Tanel_Põder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee> wrote: > If you want to decompress the existing blocks
as well, then you can just use
> "alter table move nocompress", with nologging and parallel if you want. (but
> test it out on a test table first, I had some problems with it in 9.2.0.1).
>
> Tanel.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Freeman Robert - IL" <FREEMANR_at_tusc.com>
> To: "'Chris Stephens '" <ChrisStephens_at_affina.com>; <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:38 AM
> Subject: RE: quick question on decompressing a table...
>
>
> > Someone might disagree with me, but it strikes me that this is *much* more
> > work than it's worth. Simply alter the table to not use compression. New
> > data will not be compressed and While the data thats in it right now might
> > be in compressed format, any change to that data will result in it's
> > permenant uncompression. Since there isn't much data in it at this point,
> I
> > would not think that this would be that big of a deal....
> >
> > RF
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Stephens
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Sent: 2/18/2004 4:33 PM
> > Subject: quick question on decompressing a table...
> >
> > We have a fact table that was mistakenly created with the compression
> > option.
> > Fortunately there is not (too) much data in the table as of yet.
> >
> > The table is partitioned and have bitmap indexes on all the foreign
> > keys.
> >
> > Downtime isn't a huge deal...but minimizing it would be a positive
> > thing.
> >
> >
> >
> > The easiest way I can think of to correct this is the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > Create table temp as select * from comp_table nologging;
> >
> >
> >
> > Drop table comp_table;
> >
> >
> >
> > Recreate table comp_table
> >
> >
> >
> > Insert /*+ append */ into comp_table select * from temp_table;
> >
> >
> >
> > Rebuild bitmaps
> >
> >
> >
> > Regrant privileges.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ...any faster/easier way to do this? ...any gotchas working with
> > compressed tables (not sure how it would relate to this situation)?
> >
> > ...I'm no expert on table compression and as it stands now, r'ing tfm
> > at
> > this point isn't won't be worth any time savings. I'm mostly just (a
> > little) curious.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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