This is one of the cases where a partitioned table can be of great use. What version of Oracle? Standard or Enterprise Edition? With a partitioned table you can say alter table ... drop partition ... ; to easily get rid of a large chunk of data and release the space.
See Oracle9i Database Concepts Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96524-01 Chapter 11 Partitioned Tables and Indexes http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/c12parti.htm#464767 or http://tinyurl.com/362ba -----Original Message----- Nguyen, David M I am using delete command to delete million records in several tables to free up space in tablespace. I understand delete command does not release unused spaces as truncate command but I could not use truncate to delete ALL records in table as I need to keep one month old of records in table. Please advise a better method I can use to free up spaces. Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jacques Kilchoer INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
