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How to remove data from disk

From: Bruce <sandell_at_pacbell.net>
Date: 6 May 2004 16:14:54 -0700
Message-ID: <595024a5.0405061514.5f256b15@posting.google.com>


I have a table with some sensitive customer data in it. I am now keeping all the data in another table, and encrypting it. I want to get rid of the original unencrypted data and be sure that it is no longer anywhere on disk. Should I drop the table, or first delete the rows and then clear the redo logs? I'm not sure how to know if the data is actually physically deleted from disk, or if it's still there, but just in blocks that get marked as available. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 18:14:54 CDT

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