Re: Deallocate Unused

  • From: vidya kalyanaraman <vidya.kalyanaraman@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:35:20 +0530

Hi Richard

Thanks for the explanation.  But what makes "keep" option  more 
beneficial or more efficient ?
 what do you use normally?

Regards
Vidya

Richard Foote wrote:

>Hi Vidya,
>
>"deallocate unused" will only deallocate extents up to the size specified by
>your initial/minexents storage allocation.
>
>"deallocate unused keep blah" allows you to go below your initial allocation
>although it won't violate uniform extent size (LMT), minimum extent size
>(DMT), etc. limitations.
>
>Cheers
>
>Richard
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "vidya kalyanaraman" <vidya.kalyanaraman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:22 PM
>Subject: Deallocate Unused
>
>
>Hi
>While alterering the table to deallocate the extents which are above the
>HWM, we did use the following command.
>alter table <tab> deallocate unused;
>  Another DBA here feels that  appending the DDL  with "KEEP' keyword
>is more beneficial.  But  he could not give any solid reason for doing so.
>alter table <tab> deallocate unused keep 10M;
>Can any one tell me how these two commands are different and which is
>more efficient?
>Scanned through Metalink, but could not find the correct answer for this
>question.
>Thanks in Advance
>Vidya
>
>
>
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