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RE: Analyzing indexes

From: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI <Jerome.Whittle_at_scott.af.mil>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:49:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00566118.20030311074905@fatcity.com>


Chuck,

Do you think these indexes are corrupt? Validate structure doesn't give you statistics like Compute Statistics or Estimate Statistics does.

Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Hamilton [SMTP:chuckh_at_softhome.net]
>
> I need to determine whether or not a couple of indexes need to be rebuilt.
> The problem is the indexes are quite large and on a 24x7 high volume
> database. If I try to run an "analyze validate structure" to gather the data
> I need to make that decision, it sets a lock on the table for about an hour
> which I can't afford to do. There is no slow time when I can do this and
> management has said before they're not going to spring for the partitioning
> option to break the indexes up into managable pieces. Is there some other
> way I can get the information needed to determine if an index needs to be
> rebuilt or not without setting a lock on the table? We are on Oracle 8.1.7.
>

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