RE: How to coalesce an LMT TS to drop extra datafiles?

  • From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 13:50:47 -0600 (CST)

T.J. replies:

> I vaguely remember some bugs in an unpatched install of 11.2.0.3 that
> stopped me dead in my tracks, but patches were available at the time.  My
> test database is running 11.2.0.3 patch 6 (Windows x64), and
> DBMS_REDEFINITION works fine on tables with triggers for me.

I'll be confirming my patch levels before testing...

> Another gotcha that I just remembered though is foreign keys - if you move a
> parent table, the children will need to be manually repointed to the new
> (redefined) table.  Really, you'll just want to watch for invalid objects

No worries for me there.  No FKs, just PKs.  And only a few triggers that I
could disable temporarily off-hours.  No PL/SQL to speak of, either, other
than DBA stuff.

Thanks!

Rich

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