RE: archive query - revisited

Were the indexes also created with nologging?

And for those more knowledgeable than I: If the index was created with nologging and its associated table has date inserted with APPEND will block change vectors for the Indexes be written to redo logs?

If so, perhaps dropping the indexes before load and then recreating them with the NOLOGGING option would miminize your redo (since that seems to be an urgent matter for you). I don't know how feasible this is (size of the tables, # of indexes, need for access to indexes 24x7, etc)

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[mailto:grant.g.holyoake_at_centrelink.gov.au] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Mohammad and Jay....many thanks for the responses.

Upon running your script Mohammad, I noticed that archive files were being written to the archive directory during a large insert operation and stopped being written once the insert had completed. The insert command uses APPEND, the associated table is indexed but created with nologging. It is however partitioned. I'm still confused as to why logging continues to occur.....could it be that the extents allocated during the insert operation are logged?

The same procedure creates a number of worktables to assist with join queries (not temp tables rather permanent tables) which are subsequently dropped after the query has completed (no indexes - hash joins only). There are no deletes or updates.

Any more clues??

Here's a copy of the table structure:

(See attached file: table.txt)

Here's a copy of the insert statement summarized from the procedure:

(See attached file: insert.txt)

Many thanks
Grant

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