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For those of us acquainted with the philosophical works of Douglas Adams we know that the the answer to everything is 42.

mdw1123> select all knowledge from everything
2 /

KNOWLEDGE
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42

This above is a real SQL statement (v…

If you alter table TEST drop partition Q1, does it go in the recycle bin?
That is the question I was asked today. “Of course it….” Pause. More pause.
No, I did not know. I knew I’d seen partitions in the recyclebin on Oracle but I thought there…