Let?s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and

Let?s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete
95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand. But in local
memory you don?t have enough space for 95,000 records. What
do you do in this case? How do you delete without any
problem with time and performance?

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Let?s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand..

Answer / manjeet

First select the 5000 records u want to keep.. put it in
memory.. then delete the entire table.. and then put this
5000 record table in place

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Let?s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand..

Answer / pankaj gupta

First create a table using select statement with 5000 records u want to keep.. put it in memory.. then drop/truncate (not delete, that is the basic problem) the entire table.. and then put this 5000 record table in place

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Let?s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand..

Answer / java

Do the batch delete.
ie Delete the set of records in loop and commit the transaction

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