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Drop Unused columns [message #639801] Thu, 16 July 2015 08:14 Go to next message
preet_kumar
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Registered: March 2007
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I need to drop few columns from a table with over billion records and i tried both the below methods which takes almost 6hours

alter table abc set unused columns col1;
alter table abc drop unused columns;
AND
alter table abc set unused (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5);
alter table abc drop unused columns;

Is there any way reduce the drop time ?
Re: Drop Unused columns [message #639804 is a reply to message #639801] Thu, 16 July 2015 08:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
BlackSwan
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>Is there any way reduce the drop time ?
no, no way
Re: Drop Unused columns [message #639805 is a reply to message #639801] Thu, 16 July 2015 08:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cookiemonster
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I'd try create table as select from original table minus the columns you don't want.
Re: Drop Unused columns [message #639809 is a reply to message #639805] Thu, 16 July 2015 09:28 Go to previous message
bpeasland
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I might be faster to just mark the columns as unused and leave it at that. You will still have the columns there, technically. But dropping the column isn't going to get space back anyway.

Cheers,
Brian
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