Hi I think your best bet is CTAS with parallel query and direct load. On 2/20/06, Michael Ray <topshot.rhit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My goal is reducing the precision and scale of a populated column on a > table with almost 500 million rows. > > I haven't tried the online redef yet (this is 10gR2), but the other > option is taking a huge amount of undo. I have set ALTER SYSTEM SET > UNDO_RETENTION=5; which helped quite a bit on the original full > import. > > Is there a way to disable undo for the update operation? I think my > best bet would be doing CTAS nologging, drop old table and rename new > one. > > On 2/9/06, Richard Quintin <rquintin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > If you are 9i+ you have two more options. > > > > Online redefinition would allow you to do it without any additional down > time. > > > > or > > > > as an alternative to creating a new table you can do something like > > alter table foo add column(x number(7,3)); > > update foo set x = old_column; > > alter table foo drop column old_column; > > alter table foo rename column x to old_column; > > > > I rather doubt this method would be more performant than just importing > into a > > pre-created table, but it's an option... > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >