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In the database structured query language (SQL), the DELETE statement removes one or more records from a table.

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Best way to delete very large recordset in Oracle

Currently we have to do this delete in batches of about 50,000 rows (ie. delete 50000, comit, delete 50000, commit, repeat). … Attempting to delete the entire batch all at one time makes the database unresponsive for about an hour (depending on the # of rows). …
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