Well, it never occurred to me that they would do something like that (an alias), what would be the point? Since they are deleting every record from the table, I thought it was simply some old-timer method for emulating a truncate back from the days of Oracle 5 or 6, maybe some decrepit ex-COBOL programmer hired to write Informatica code. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf Of Khedr, Waleed Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:38 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: DELETE FROM table UNRECOVERABLE? I hope you know it's an alias for the table. Waleed -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> ] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:27 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DELETE FROM table UNRECOVERABLE? I'm seeing this statement being issued in one database. I cannot find the UNRECOVERABLE keyword in the 9i SQL Reference. Is UNRECOVERABLE perhaps an old keyword that is now ignored by Oracle? I did some quick testing with AUTOTRACE, and noted no difference for the values for Redo Size as compared to a DELETE w/o UNRECOVERABLE, nor did it=20 have any impact on the HWM. -------------------------------------------- Jeffery D Thomas DBA Thomson Information Services Thomson, Inc. Email: jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx Indy DBA Master Documentation available at: http://gkmqp.tce.com/tis_dba <http://gkmqp.tce.com/tis_dba> -------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com <http://www.orafaq.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ <//www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/> FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html <//www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com <http://www.orafaq.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ <//www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/> FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html <//www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------