Re: BIN$ tables

From: Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:55:17 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20061107185517.69797.qmail@web51309.mail.yahoo.com>

Or we can use drop table <tablename> purge;

Which will make sure that Drop is working the way it used to work earlier means no recyclebin

Sanjay

Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:

David,

I haven't had the opportunity to use 10g yet, but I like your opinion that overall this is a great feature, and wonder what the experience of others has been.

One of the quickest way to shut down a production application is to have two screens before you, one for test, one for production. Enter the drop table command into the wrong screen. The second easiest is to have a script lying about which conveniently begins with DROP TABLE, followed by CREATE TABLE. Have that executed at the wrong time on the wrong system, and catastrophe ensues. I have usually exported the small static tables weekly just to be able to recover from this problem.

But I can see this can be frustrating when working with large tables because an additional step is required in order to release the space.

Dennis Williams