RE: index status misleading?

Do you understand why the indexes were invalidated in the first place? you will always have to rebuild your indexes when you move tables, period. There is no way around it.

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Baby Oven
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
5259 Coconut Creek Parkway
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gurelei [SMTP:gurelei_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: index status misleading?
>
> Hi all:
>
> Last night I have moved couple of tables from one TS
> to another. Then I thought I'd check whether I need to
> rebuild any indices. I ran the following query:
>
> select distinct status from dba_objects
> where owner = 'MYOWNER'
>
> Oracle returned I row with value VALID. From that I
> concluded that there were no indices to be rebuilt.
> This morning however it turns out that there indeed
> were indices in UNUSABLE state. What I don't
> understand is why didn't I see UNUSABLE in the output
> of my query. Can anyone explain please?
>
> thanks
>
> Gene
>
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