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July 20, 2021

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All about delete - Back to basics
In July's session we looked at how to remove data with delete. Highlights include:

00:25 - Structure of a delete statement
02:30 - Capture details of the removed data with the returning clause
04:45 - Using flashback query to recover rows deleted by mistake
10:00 - Demo of delete, returning clause, and flashback query
20:30 - Recovering space freed up by deletes
22:10 - Purging vs archiving vs staging
26:30 - Purging significant numbers of rows
27:50 - Move vs shrink to recover space
29:45 - Rolling archival processes
32:00 - Drop partition
32:15 - Deleting staging data
33:40 - Truncate table
34:10 - Simple dot-notation access for JSON data
35:10 - Demo of space recovery using shrink and move
39:50 - Demo of delete vs truncate
41:30 - Using global temporary tables to manage staging data
44:30 - Delete performance - how to make it faster
45:30 - Create table as select to "delete" data
46:10 - Drop partition
47:15 - Filtered table move to delete rows
48:40 - Demo of deleting 99.5% of the rows from 100 million row tables fast

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