A part of your job as a DBA is maintaining database availability to match your service level agreements (SLA) with your customers. But keep in mind that this SLA can also impact any required downtime for maintenance. Throughout the years, Oracle has introduced many tools and features to reduce this maintenance downtime. Today we are going to take a look at a cool feature that will help you when you have to perform maintenance on a large table, online table redefinition.

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