On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've looked through the on-line documentation on dropping partitions
> but I have not seen the following question specifically addressed:
>
> How does dropping a date-range partition affect the rest of the
> table/partitions?
New data will be inserted into the next-highest partition. Current data in the
partition will be lost.
> Can I drop an unneeded partition on the fly? What is the
> effect on performance of the rest of the table? Does anything
> need to be brought offline before I drop the desired partition?
The hit will be in rebuilding the indexes. Unless you have a large number of
extents in the partition, it will drop very quickly - quick enough not to be
noticeable unless a user is running a query or transaction against the data in
the partition (the query/transaction will fail).
Cheers,
GC
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