Collation can affect the deletion of rows from tables defined with a character partitioning expression.
- If the collation for a table is either MULTINATIONAL or CHARSET_COLL and the definition for the collation has changed since the table was created, the database aborts any request that attempts to delete a row from the table and returns an error to the requestor.
- If a noncompressed join index with a character partitioning expression defined with either an MULTINATIONAL or CHARSET_COLL collation sequence is defined on a table and the definition for the collation has changed since the join index was created, the database aborts any request that attempts to delete a row from the table and returns an error to the requestor whether the operation would have deleted rows from the join index or not.
- The session mode and collation at the time the table was created need not match the current session mode and collation for the delete operation to succeed.
Partitioning Expressions and Unicode
If a partitioning expression for a table or noncompressed join index involves Unicode character expressions or literals and the system has been backed down to a release that has Unicode code points that do not match the code points that were in effect when the table or join index was defined, the database aborts any attempts to delete rows from the table and returns an error to the requestor.