Re: autocommit behaviour

In article <8193246.0203140907.6267f247_at_posting.google.com>, nandagopalj_at_hotmail.com says...
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>Hello:
>
>I am executing the following statement from sqlplus on Oracle V8
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>SET AUTOCOMMIT 15000;
>delete from emp where join_dt < '20000101';
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>Would it be a true statement to say that the rollback segment grows
>only by 15000 rows, because of the autocommit being set to 15000 ?
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>I think that the autocommit is implemented by sqlplus in this case. It
>commits only after all rows (as per where clause) are deleted. So
>autocommit may not help to minimize the rollback segments from growing
>during a delete. Any info on this is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Nan.

that would autocommit every 15,000 statements:

ops$tkyte_at_ORA817DEV.US.ORACLE.COM> set autocommit 50 ops$tkyte_at_ORA817DEV.US.ORACLE.COM> show autocommit AUTOCOMMIT ON for every 50 DML statements

it does NOT autocommit every "n rows".

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