Re: Re-claiming the space from Table after deleteion

Also is this really a problem. In the next month you are going to import more rows which will use the deleted space anyway.

>>> "Joseph S. Testa" <teci_at_oracle-dba.com> 03/09/01 07:17AM >>>
sounds like a candidate for partitioning.

joe
rafi_at_vsnl.net wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Platform: Solaris 2.6, Oracle: 7.3.4.0
>
> We have a few tables which are growing very fast due to large no of
> insertions. But the data gets obselete after a month and we use a
> procedure to delete the obselete data from the tables.
>
> The problem is that the table does not free the space even after the
>deletion of 40% of the data.
>
> How can we re-claim the unused space which got created due to deletion?
>
> How do we ensure that future inserts are done in this unused space?
>
> [We can not try exp/imp or truncate option
> due to the huge size & high activity and
> online use of the tables].
>
> Kind Regards and thanks to all there,
>
> Rafi Ahmad
>

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