Since Oracle 10g the database has a recycle bin containing the information of dropped tables. When you drop a table it's not really dropped, just registered in the recycle bin (instead of as a "regular" table) with a BIN$ prefix and an auto-generated hash.
Once you're sure you application works properly and you really don't need this table anymore, you can get rid of it completely by using the purge command:
Since Oracle 10g the database has a recycle bin containing the information of dropped tables. When you drop a table it's not really dropped, just registered in the recycle bin (instead of as a "regular" table) with a
BIN$prefix and an auto-generated hash.Once you're sure you application works properly and you really don't need this table anymore, you can get rid of it completely by using the
purgecommand: