Common Questions About Dropping/Truncating Partition (Doc ID 1483661.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This document addresses the best practices and methods for drop partition.

Solution

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In this Document

Dropping Partitions

Dropping Table Partitions

Dropping a Partition from a Table that Contains Data and Global Indexes

Dropping a Partition Containing Data and Referential Integrity Constraints

Dropping Interval Partitions

Dropping Index Partitions

Truncating Partitions

Truncating Table Partitions Containing Data and Global Indexes

Truncating a Partition Containing Data and Referential Integrity Constraints

Truncating a Subpartition

How to alter/drop maxvalued table partitioned?

How to Drop Partitioned Tables

Updating Indexes Automatically

Dropping/Truncating partitions in 12c

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