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- From: dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Freeing disk space
- Message-ID: <dtb.714878240@otto>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 01:17:20 GMT
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- howard@monitor.com (Howard Brenner) writes:
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- >When you issues a drop or delete command in oracle (then a commit) does
- >oracle free up the disk space to be reused by someone else or does it just
- >move on to the next block it thinks has been usused? If it doen't "free"
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- Whoa ! You essentially preallocate disk and give it to Oracle to manage
- (especially if you are using raw disk).
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- No disk is given back to the OS when a table is deleted
- (Have I understood your comment correctly?)
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- I you are only talking about dataspace inside an Oracle tablespace,
- then that is a different matter and I am not sure of the answer
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