Greg, Again, thank you. The next question I have is in regards to deletes. Is it possible to do a direct path delete (does that even make sense)? As I mentioned this will be a repository for CAS tickets and they will be deleted at their expiration time. Is it possible to avoid generation of redo on a delete as well? Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Greg Rahn [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:27 PM To: William Wagman Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Nologging clause This is correct. The [NO]LOGGING only changes direct path operations. That is, inserts with the /*+ APPEND */ hint. So if you want NOLOGGING you need either: - NO ARCHIVE LOG mode - ARCHIVE LOG mode, NOLOGGING, and APPEND hint On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:04 PM, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It appears that he is saying that if a table is set to nologging and my > insert mode is append then even if archive logging is on no redo will be > generated. I'm still not sure I am understanding this correctly but I take > that to mean > > SQL> insert /*+ APPEND */ into <table>; > > Then no redo will be generated. Is that a correct understanding? -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l