RE: Dropping partitions with data versus empty

From: Feng, Jun <jfeng_at_netsol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:16:57 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002E921E.20010413080023@fatcity.com>

We have that kind application running on the production and didn't have any problem since it was deployed last Oct.. The application will truncate the one of the table partitions which contains 99% of the data (about 7M records) before reload the data every two weeks. For you situation, you can truncate partition then drop it. It is easy, clean and quick.

Jun

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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 10:12 AM
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Anyone have any problems dropping partitions that hold data?

We are debating the risk involved in dropping populated partitions as opposed to purging the data out of them first and then dropping them (a lot of work).

Theoretically, this should work o.k. but has anybody actually had problems doing this?

Cherie

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