You want to track and store all transactional changes to a table over its lifetime. To accomplish this task, you enabled Flashback Data Archive with the retention of 5 years. After some time, the business requirement changed and you were asked to change the retention from 5 years to 3 years. To accomplish this, you issued the following command:

ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE fla1 MODIFY RETENTION 3 YEAR; What is the implication of this command?

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You want to track and store all transactional changes to a table over its lifetime. To accomplish this task, you enabled Flashback Data Archive with the retention of 5 years. After some time, the business requirement changed and you were asked to change the retention from 5 years to 3 years. To accomplish this, you issued the following command:

ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE fla1 MODIFY RETENTION 3 YEAR; What is the implication of this command?

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D. All historical data older than three years is purged from the flashback archive FLA1.

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A. The command produces an error because the retention time cannot be reduced.

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B. All historical data is retained but the subsequent flashback data archives are maintained for only

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C. All historical data is purged and the new flashback data archives are maintained for three years.

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