Re: Rebuilding Indexes Question

and in 9i, almost everything is done online, w/journaling and no locking.

but thats another week in the future. ;)

joe

Charlie Mengler wrote:
>
> >From 1st hand experience, folks need to be warned that
> the last time I did this during normal working hours on an
> index on a production table, the order entry department
> could no longer commit new orders. They were "hung"
> until the index rebuild completed. So use with caution.
>
> Deepak Thapliyal wrote:
>
> > Jacques
> >
> > i think oracle puts exclusive locks on the table on
> > which you are trying to create an index. that reason
> > should be good enough to use the "rebuild online"
> > option instead of create/drop especially for systems
> > that require to be available all the time
> >
> > Deepak
> >
> > --- Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cjordan_at_smcwv.com [mailto:cjordan_at_smcwv.com]
> > > >
> > > > What are the advantages/disadvantages to doing a
> > > alter index rebuild
> > > > (Oracle 8.0.X) versus dropping and recreating the
> > > index.
> > >
>
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