Your question, raises, serveral questions. How big is the table? How many indexes does it contains? How many rows are you going to delete? If you are going to delete major percent of records, follow tom kyte procedure, like, copy the rows required into a temp table, truncate the source table and bring the data back from the temp table. On 11/14/06, Dean Paul <oracledbam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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