Re: Inserts are taking time !

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:23, chris.w.johnson_at_bt.com wrote:
> It sounds to me like the indexes are going into overflow - this will cause

What do you mean by 'overflow'?

Jared

> the insert time to increase. I would suggest batching up the inserts,
> dropping the indexes, running the inserts and re-creating the indexes.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 04 September 2002 07:53
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have a table which can contain more than half a million records. When we
> try to insert some 10k records in the empty table it get inserted in 10
> min. but as the size increases time taken to insert also increases. After
> 350,000 records it takes around an hour to insert 10k records.
> There are around 15 columns in it out of which 11 are indexed. There is one
> concatenated function-based index on two columns of Varchar type and two
> separate index for the same two columns.
>
> I have checked the free space for the tablespaces to which the table and
> indexes are attached to. They are in two separate tbs.
>
> Any clues why this is happenning.
>
> TIA
> Marul.

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