RE: Slower and slower and slower

Can you afford to drop your indexes before you load and recreate them after the load? Sometimes the process of updating the indexes is more expensive performance-wise than dropping them and recreating them.

Hope this helps.

Michael Armstead
Database Administrator, OCP-Certified
Corporate & Finance Information Systems
Glaxo Wellcome

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan.Hubler_at_midata.com [SMTP:Dan.Hubler_at_midata.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 5:44 PM
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> Subject: Slower and slower and slower and............................
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> Oracle 7.3.4.4 on NT v4.0
> ===================
>
> Running a series of batch-type jobs that populate a certain bunch of
> tables
> in the DB.
>
> Seem to run slower and slower as more and more records are input.
>
> Any ideas as to why?
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>
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Received on Mon Aug 28 2000 - 16:14:29 CDT