yea in the table but not the index, since unless you put the exact same
value for the row the index leaf node will NOT be reused, hence my
statement about the partitioning.
Joe
William Beilstein wrote:
>
> Also is this really a problem. In the next month you are going to import more rows
>which will use the deleted space anyway.
>
> >>> "Joseph S. Testa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/01 07:17AM >>>
> sounds like a candidate for partitioning.
>
> joe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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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