RE: local write wait event

John,

You don't mention a version, but it sounds to me like you'd want to use global temporary tables and avoid the TRUNCATE all together.

-Mark

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of John Kanagaraj Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:42 PM
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Subject: RE: local write wait event

KG/All,

>see this during (rarely) Truncating a large table while most of the
>buffers of that table in cache. During TRUNCATEs the session has to a
>local checkpoint and during this process, the session may wait for
>'local write' wait.

We are seeing a number of these waits on a largish Oracle Applications database that has frequent TRUNCATEs some 'temporary' tables that are = used
for Inventory's ATP (Available-To-Promise) processes. Makes sense!

John Kanagaraj <><
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