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RE: Deletion Of 160 Million Rows.

From: <ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:16:07 +0000
Message-Id: <020820051616.27011.4208E5C700062035000069832200762302079D9A00000E09A1020E979D@comcast.net>


create table as nologging is the tried and true best way to do handle this. i believe its tom kytes recommended way of handling this also on asktom. -------------- Original message --------------

> This depends on your application, but another way might be as follows:
>
> 1. Copy your table to another area.
> 2. Truncate your original table (truncate is much faster without the =
> undo
> problem).
> 3. Insert into the original table from the copy for the records you want
> to keep.

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