Re: TRUNCATE TABLE in PL/SQL

From: Chakrapani Venkatesan <chakra_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1995/05/25
Message-ID: <3q1uvk$9e6_at_ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>#1/1


In <rmartin.9.0016732B_at_mindspring.com> rmartin_at_mindspring.com (Robert Martin) writes:
>
>Is it possible to do a TRUNCATE (or something equivalent) from within
 a
>PL/SQL program? I'm having to do a lot of DELETE <table_name>;
 COMMIT; on
>large tables and it is extremely slow compared to TRUNCATE.

Check out the standard package supplied with Oracle called DBMS_SQL.

Chakra. Received on Thu May 25 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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