Home/ Questions/Q 8709231
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-13T04:19:01+00:00

My Oracle Database (10.2) contains tables in Form BIN$. They are listed by select

  • 0

My Oracle Database (10.2) contains tables in Form “BIN$”. They are listed by 

select * from user_recyclebin

but not by 

show recycle_bin

The command “show parameters” indicate “recyclebin=on” (it is also the default value in Oracle).

Moreover: Oracle put a table in the recycle bin only if it is member of a cluster, isn’t it? (I understand the Oracle Administrator Guide so…). I indeed have dropped the corresponding tables, but I never have used any cluster in this database…

A call to PURGE TABLE has worked: the entry disappeared of user_recyclebin. But why did I have it?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I didn’t understand the SQL statement reference first:

    If you drop a table that is part of a cluster, the table is moved to the recycle bin. However, if you subsequently drop the cluster, then the table is purged from the recycle bin and can no longer be recovered with a FLASHBACK TABLE operation.

    All tables are put in the bin, the normal ones as well as the cluster ones. The difference is, that the recycle tables of a cluster disapper if the cluster is dropped.

    • 0