You should consider doing a create newtable as select with the oposite conditions as your delete, followed by a truncate/drop, exchange partition or whatever. Delete is really hard against the undo segments.
/Bjørn. On Thursday 21 February 2002 23:13, you wrote: > Hello All, > I have a non-partitioned table with 20 millions > records and growing. Every night a pl/sql stored > procedures deletes around 1 million rows 10,000 at a > time.Currently it is taking aroung 1 hour to delete 1 > million messages. > Is there any way I can make deletes faster. I need > good suggestions. I have already tried all the obvious > init.ora parameters like make_delete_faster=true but > they do not seem to work.:-) > > Thanks > Sonia > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com -- Bjørn Engsig, Miracle A/S http://MiracleAS.dk -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn=20Engsig?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
