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Shell script for table purging [message #560885] Tue, 17 July 2012 11:48 Go to next message
divroro12
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Hi Guys,

I have a table within my DB that's growing at a very fast rate & i need to do some maintenance to prevent constant filling of the underlying tablespace. Just one month worth of records is necessary.
This is what I have in mind.

1. Create an identical temporary table as original table
2. Insert last one month records into temp table
3. Truncate the original table
4. Insert temporary table records into original table
5. truncate temporsry table.

All of above should be in a single shell script or a PL/SQL procedure.
Does anyone have anything similar already working?

Thanks in advance...

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Re: Shell script for table purging [message #560886 is a reply to message #560885] Tue, 17 July 2012 11:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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Partition the table by month and use partitions maintenance.
And as you are in 11gR2, you can use interval partitioning so you even don't have to create the partitions just to drop (or archive) the obsolete ones.

Regards
Michel

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Re: Shell script for table purging [message #560887 is a reply to message #560886] Tue, 17 July 2012 12:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
BlackSwan
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daily delete records that are older than 31 days.

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Re: Shell script for table purging [message #560915 is a reply to message #560887] Tue, 17 July 2012 14:39 Go to previous message
divroro12
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Thanks Michel, i'll look into that.

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