RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:03:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003FF9AC.20020129134553@fatcity.com>

I strongly suggest you not experiment with this on your production database.

--Walt

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I'm a complete newbie, so I may be off-base here, but I believe that truncating a table does not delete any data from the table. It moves the cursor up, thereby closing up the "empty space" where data has previously been deleted.

--JoJo

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

To our resident Oracle Expert who just 6 months (July 26 2001) ago posted the following e-mail

If I remember rightly, deleting rows from the table does NOT free up tablespace. In order to do that you have to trunctate the table (although this of course deletes all data from the table)...I can't for the life of me remember how you adjust the space the table is actually using after doing a delete...(to everyone else) would an analyze work?

Kev.
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