Re: Delete vs. truncate to free up spaces.

you can also do the following:

1. create table as and copy just the records you want to keep.
2. Drop the old table
3. rename new table to old table
4. re-create the indexes. if there are alot, issue them as jobs and do it at the same time.
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> This is one of the cases where a partitioned table can be of great use.
What version of Oracle? Standard or Enterprise Edition?
> With a partitioned table you can say
> alter table ... drop partition ... ;
> to easily get rid of a large chunk of data and release the space.
>
> See
> Oracle9i Database Concepts Release 2 (9.2)
> Part Number A96524-01
> Chapter 11
> Partitioned Tables and Indexes
>

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/c12parti .htm#464767
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/362ba
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Nguyen, David M
>
> I am using delete command to delete million records in several tables to
free up space in tablespace. I understand delete command does not release unused spaces as truncate command but I could not use truncate to delete ALL records in table as I need to keep one month old of records in table. Please advise a better method I can use to free up spaces.
> Thanks,
> David
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