Mr Alex
You overlooked imp point that is oracle 7.3
>From: "Alex Hillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: RE: Re-claiming the space from Table after deleteion
>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:45:57 -0800
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>First of all, as Joe Testa said - if you partitioned this table by date -
>let say one partition per month - you can truncate partitions that you
>don't
>need anymore. Second - if this option is not available - let say that you
>need delete most but not all records from specific partition - you can
>create temporary table, select into this table all records that should not
>be deleted, truncate partition and then select into partition all records
>from temporary table. And last case - if you need to delete let say 30-50%
>of the recors and this table does not have a lot of deletes in everyday
>activity and most deletes are batch in the end of month or some other
>period - you can increase value of PCTUSED to 100-PCTFREE-5.
>
>Alex Hillman
>
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> > Subject: Re-claiming the space from Table after deleteion
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> >
> > 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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