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RE: Oracle Expert and FK indexes

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:27:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003DECCF.20011218040523@fatcity.com>

I didn't do what the Oracle Expert told me to do... no time to "experiment".

I will ask Oracle Support what is going on, thanks for reminding me.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Shreter, Hilary [SMTP:ShreterH_at_orau.gov]
        Sent:   Monday, December 17, 2001 4:10 PM
        To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
        Subject:        RE: Oracle Expert and FK indexes

        Hello, Patrice -- I realize that you wrote this last month.  Did you
ever
        draw any conclusions about this behavior?

        I am trodding the foreign key ground right now hoping to find the
golden key
        to a huge performance issue.
        I found many "unindexed foreign keys" (using the scripts per
Note:16428.1),
        however none were in the areas I was researching.

        I wonder if Expert wanted you to drop them if your table has few
rows or if
        it has very little variability in the values.
        Did you ever find the answer to why Expert suggested this?  Just
wondering.
        -----Original Message-----
        Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:30 AM
        To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


        Does someone know why the Oracle Expert would recommend dropping
indexes on
        FK columns?

        Maybe it calculates there is a low likelihood of the table being
locked
        during referential integrity checks ?

        I thought it was a good idea to have indexes on FK columns... this
is an old
        7.3.4.5. database.

        Regards,
        Patrice Boivin
        Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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