Re: Table keeps growing inspite of purging

Sasha Ostojic wrote:
>
> I have an application that writes several hundred records to a table every
> few minutes. There is a cron job that runs every hour that deletes records
> older than two days from this table. This has been running now for about
> three months. The problem is that I noticed that the table is growing over
> time (the number of extents is growing). I would have expected it to reach
> a certain size (after two days), and then the space freed by deleted records
> would be reused. The table has one index, and it is still growing as well.
>
> The table is created with PCTFREE 5 and PCTUSED 60. The index is PCTFREE 5.
>
> Why is my table still growing?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> .sasha

Hi,
The High Water Mark won't change if you use delete command.

AMAR

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