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Delete Rows [message #158526]

Sun, 12 February 2006 23:16

vposina
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Registered: February 2006

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I deleted old data (almost about 70% of the records) and was expecting a huge performance gain on quesries based on these tables. I do not see much performance improvement.
This is what we did.
1.Delete Data.
2. Ran the analyze.
3. Measured the response time of the queries. Performance did not improve much. Mad

I am missing something. Please advice. Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Delete Rows [message #158529 is a reply to message #158526]

Mon, 13 February 2006 00:07

rleishman
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Presumably you are not expecting big performance gains on INDEXED queries on the table. If an index scan returns 5 rows, it doesn't matter whether the underlying table contains 5 rows or 5 million rows - performance will be pretty much the same.

So, I'm guessing that you were hoping for improvement in Full Table Scans. This is a common and well documented problem. Do a search on High Water Mark (or HWM) in this forum for a full explanation.

In a nutshell, Oracle is still scanning all those empty blocks. To fix the problem, you need to reclaim the emply space. This can be done most easily with the MOVE clause of the ALTER TABLE statement, by moving it to the same tablespace that it is already in. If it is a partitioned table, move (ie. rebuild) one partition at a time.

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Ross Leishman

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Re: Delete Rows [message #158591 is a reply to message #158529]

Mon, 13 February 2006 06:22

Mahesh Rajendran
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To add what Ross has said,
Please look here ( and search the board for more).

http://www.orafaq.com/forum/m/110688/42800/?srch=tbs_usage#msg_110688
http://www.orafaq.com/forum/m/135009/0/?srch=HWM#msg_135009

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Re: Delete Rows [message #158646 is a reply to message #158526]

Mon, 13 February 2006 14:44

vposina
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Registered: February 2006

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Ross and Mahesh,

THANKS A LOT.

Your messages really gave me some direction.
Regards

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