Re: truncate a table with many extents

From: Tim Johnston <tjohnston_at_quallaby.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:00:28 -0400
Message-ID: <409A44FC.8060203@quallaby.com>

It wouldn't save him any time... It will still have to perform all the fet$/uet$ work...

Tim

Ruth Gramolini wrote:

>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-----
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Adams, Matthew (GE
> Consumer & Industrial)
>
> I'm truncating a table with around 14,000 extents
> on a 7.3.4 database on a slow machine.
> (Please don't ask how this happened, it's too=20
> painful to re-live.)
>
> Is there anyway to determine how far the truncate
> has gotten at any given point? I thought I might see
> changes in sys.fet$ or sys.uet$ as extents are de-allocated,
> but I'm not seeing that.
>
>

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