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Re: ** Want a new DELETE command **

From: Paul Brewer <paulb_at_pbrewer.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/05/21
Message-ID: <bJt9gGAfp1gzEwGp@pbrewer.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <5lq1v4$9ol_at_camel7.mindspring.com>, Doug Anderson <dathedba_at_mindspring.com> writes
>Wouldn't it be nice if you could do something like the following...
>
> DELETE FROM table
> WHERE ...
> UNRECOVERABLE;
>
>or how about:
>
> DELETE FROM table
> WHERE ...
> COMMIT EVERY n ROWS;
>
>
>- Doug Anderson
> Oracle Database Administrator
> DAtheDBA_at_mindspring.com
>

This may be miles off. If so, sorry.
Instead of trying to delete from table A, how about create table B unrecoverable as select from table A only the rows I want to keep, then rename B as A?
Paul Brewer Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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