Only some of the space will be available, remember some of the blocks may
not have made it back onto the free list.
It could be minor, I don't really know, but don't expect to get back all the
space you want to see.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
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From: William Beilstein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Re-claiming the space from Table after deleteion
Also is this really a problem. In the next month you are going to
import more rows which will use the deleted space anyway.
>>> "Joseph S. Testa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/01 07:17AM >>>
sounds like a candidate for partitioning.
joe
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>
> Dear All,
>
> Platform: Solaris 2.6, Oracle: 7.3.4.0
>
> We have a few tables which are growing very fast due to large no
of
> insertions. But the data gets obselete after a month and we use a
> procedure to delete the obselete data from the tables.
>
> The problem is that the table does not free the space even
after the deletion of 40% of the data.
>
> How can we re-claim the unused space which got created due to
deletion?
>
> How do we ensure that future inserts are done in this unused
space?
>
> [We can not try exp/imp or truncate option
> due to the huge size & high activity and
> online use of the tables].
>
> Kind Regards and thanks to all there,
>
> Rafi Ahmad
>
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