make sure you submit the code to http://www.rube-goldberg.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <sheldonquinny@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Deletion Of 160 Million Rows. > I would use combo of following: > Bulk collect - limit 100 - 500 > Use index org table to hold row'ids populated from live table. > commit batches > sleep every second between batches. > -- > .. > David -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l