On 5/20/05, Bryan Wells <bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Related to my thread earlier this week. I have a range partitioned table > that i want to drop partitioning on. can someone validate the following > steps im taking or refer me to a good doc? im going to grab DOCID > 166652.1from Metalink to start. > 1. store off tablespace/table/index ddl > 2. export specific table > 3. drop partition / tablespace > 4. recreate tablespace / table w/o partitioning > 5. import table data from step 2 > 6. recreate indexes > 7. analyze tables > 8. analyze indexes >=20 >=20 > -- > Bryan S Wells - DBA Newbie > bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx Brian, There are other options besides moving the data out of the database. If you have the space, I would not use exp/imp. search for the dbms_redefinition package (EE required). One could also rename/create table as select off of the old table and rebuild the indexes/constraints afterwards. Paul --=20 #/etc/init.d/init.cssd stop # f=3Dma, divide by 1, convert to moles. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l