What is the outcome of this command?

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 are asked to change the retention period from 5 years to 3 years. To accomplish this, you issued the following command:
ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE fla1 MODIFY RETENTION 3 YEARS;
What is the outcome of this command?

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 are asked to change the retention period from 5 years to 3 years. To accomplish this, you issued the following command:
ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE fla1 MODIFY RETENTION 3 YEARS;
What is the outcome of this command?

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

B.
All historical data older than 3 years is purged from the flashback archive FLA1

C.
All historical data is retained but the subsequent flashback data archives are maintained for only 3 years

D.
All historical data is transferred to flashback logs and the flashback archive is refreshed to set a new
retention time



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