I knew there were good reasons, I just thought I would throw that out so I could hear them. Rachel reminded me that there is also the redo log issue. Thanks, Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial) Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:10 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: truncate a table with many extents I was preferring to truncate so I wouldn't loose the=20 indexes and grants on the table.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ruth Gramolini Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:56 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: truncate a table with many extents 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----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial) Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:28 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: truncate a table with many extents 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=3D20 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. ---- Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams@xxxxxxxxxxx Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.=3D20 - The Brigadier ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------