title: In Oracle, Is it safe to drop tables containing a large amount of data?
body: <p>I have a production Oracle database which contains a large amount of data backed up in tables which were made during previous work. The tables are independent of each other and the rest of the database.</p>
  
  <p>I want to remove these backups, preferably in one shot. I know in more recent versions of Oracle dropped tables don't actually get dropped until purged from from the recycle bin. I will take of that.</p>
  
  <p>Is it safe to DROP them all at once? Is there a performance penalty during the DROP operation? Is there a chance to run out of resources during the operation? </p>
  
  <p>What is the safest way to do this?</p>