UNRECOVERABLE is the 7.x version of NOLOGGING. However, UNRECOVERABLE and NOLOGGING never worked for a DELETE statement. If someone wrote something like: delete from some_big_table unrecoverable; all they did was succeed in assigned some_big_table a table alias, "unrecoverable". ;-) -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Jeff Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:27 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DELETE FROM table UNRECOVERABLE? I'm seeing this statement being issued in one database. I cannot find the UNRECOVERABLE keyword in the 9i SQL Reference. Is UNRECOVERABLE perhaps an old keyword that is now ignored by Oracle? I did some quick testing with AUTOTRACE, and noted no difference for the values for Redo Size as compared to a DELETE w/o UNRECOVERABLE, nor did it=20 have any impact on the HWM. -------------------------------------------- Jeffery D Thomas DBA Thomson Information Services Thomson, Inc. Email: jeff.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx Indy DBA Master Documentation available at: http://gkmqp.tce.com/tis_dba -------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------