Stephane,
Thanks for your reply. We are considering truncating the
partitions first. Our main issue is recoverability. Not so
much if we can't recover a partition that we want to get rid
of but rather if we accidentally truncate a partition that we
want to keep. Just trying to cover all our bases.
Probably we will use the truncate command first. We'll
just have to have someone proofread the script first.
Cherie
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Removing data from a partition is not a lot of work :
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> Anyone have any problems dropping partitions that
> hold data?
>
> We are debating the risk involved in dropping
> populated partitions
> as opposed to purging the data out of them first and
> then dropping
> them (a lot of work).
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> Theoretically, this should work o.k. but has anybody
> actually had
> problems doing this?
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> Cherie
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