"Joseph Manuel Camilleri" <jm_c_at_bov.com> schrijfbewerkingen: > I am trying to perform an UPDATE on an oracle table using SQLPLUS script
> under Oracle 7.0 on all the rows in the table (i.e. the UPDATE has no WHERE
> clause). I keep getting problems with the size of the rollback segment.
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> Is there someway I can turn off the rollback facility for this update only?
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> Thanks.
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No. you can't. Rollback information is not only kept for your update,
but also for read consistency for other sessions: while
you are updating, Oracle shows other session the unchanged records by
retrieving the old values from the rollbacksegments.
Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
