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Kenneth Foo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dose anybody know how to disable the ROLLBACK when you delete a BIG table ( I
> don't want to drop it) rather than giving you the error message
>
> Unable to extent rollback segment ......
>
> and I hope I can leave the existing rollback segment structure intact because
> this is only a temporally deleting a big table and I am pretty sure I don't
> need it to be rollbacked.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Ken
> Cheers
Don't use delete. Use truncate instead. This drops the tables data immediatly (but you can't then do a rollback).
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