RE: Deletion Of 160 Million Rows.

  • From: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: wbfergus@xxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:16:07 +0000

create table as nologging is the tried and true best way to do handle this. i 
believe its tom kytes recommended way of handling this also on asktom. 
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> This depends on your application, but another way might be as follows: 
> 
> 1. Copy your table to another area. 
> 2. Truncate your original table (truncate is much faster without the = 
> undo 
> problem). 
> 3. Insert into the original table from the copy for the records you want 
> to keep. 

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