It wouldn't save him any time... It will still have to perform all the fet$/uet$ work... Tim Ruth Gramolini wrote: >Why can't you just drop and recreate the table? Since I know you are an >exceptional DBA this is probably a stupid question but... > >Ruth > > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GE > Consumer & Industrial) > > I'm truncating a table with around 14,000 extents > on a 7.3.4 database on a slow machine. > (Please don't ask how this happened, it's too=20 > painful to re-live.) > > Is there anyway to determine how far the truncate > has gotten at any given point? I thought I might see > changes in sys.fet$ or sys.uet$ as extents are de-allocated, > but I'm not seeing that. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------