Do I dare ask? Ok. Do you need to pay for partitioning option licensing? Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Gorman Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:54 AM To: Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Merge Richard, How about if the "reporting tables" were re-defined as range-partitioned, but with only one partition? Then, instead of modifying the "reporting tables" as they are being read by users, the refresh could instead be performed by populating an empty table from the view (i.e. using INSERT /*+ APPEND */), then performing EXCHANGE PARTITION to swap the newly-populated table with the single partition. So, all direct-path nologging inserts, all direct-path nologging compute-statistics index creations? No downtime for queries, hardly any redo, hardly any undo, no fuss, no muss? Just an idea... Tim Gorman consultant -> Evergreen Database Technologies, Inc. postal => P.O. Box 630791, Highlands Ranch CO 80163-0791 website => http://www.EvDBT.com/ email => Tim@xxxxxxxxx mobile => +1-303-885-4526 fax => +1-303-484-3608 Lost Data? => http://www.ora600.be/ for info about DUDE... On 7/6/2010 6:26 AM, Goulet, Richard wrote: All, Not often that I ask for assistance from the list, but I'm a bit baffled by this one. We have a number of reporting tables that get populated every 15 minutes from an equal number of views. The developers are saying that to run the reports off of the views is too long for customer acceptance. The current process is to delete all rows form the tables, no not truncate, that would be too easy. And then populate the tables with a select * from the view in question. I'm looking at the merge command to replace this and the tons of redo that it produces and has to be shipped to a standby on a very small straw. To put is mildly the db is 74GB is size & produces 150GB of redo a day. Now I'd simply shutoff the redo for that tablespace, but they claim that the standby HAS to be able to come up on a moments notice & be fully available. Yeah, this is a pile of Duhvelopers. Now Merge as I see it handles 90% of what we need, but my problem is that if a row is not matched because it no longer exists in the source view, how do you delete it? Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead PAREXEL International 900 Chelmsford St, Suite 310 Lowell, MA 01821 978.614.2857 Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.parexel.com <http://www.parexel.com> The information transmitted in this communication is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please destroy any copies, contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l