If I am not mistaken dropping the table should be much worse than using truncate because the use of drop would greatly increase the amount of undo that Oracle has to keep track of. -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Khedr, Waleed Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:03 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: truncate a table with many extents Drop will be as bad as truncate -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:56 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: truncate a table with many extents Why can't you just drop and recreate the table? Since I know you are an exceptional DBA this is probably a stupid question but... Ruth -----Original Message----- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------