RE: How to speedup index rebuild

Wolfgang - Excellent point.
Dennis - If you are dropping indexes to do data loads, take a look at Oracle partitioning and local indexes. Other ideas to try are PARALLEL, time ALTER INDEX REBUILD. Dennis Williams
DBA, 60%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Why do you think you need to rebuild the indexes in the first place?

At 08:26 PM 5/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all -
>We are on 8.1.7.4 and HP11. I am rebuilding all indexes in the database and
>wonder if DBAs out there can give me some tips on how to speed things up.
>I am aware of some of the things that need to be done, like using
>'nologgin', increasing sort area size and buffer cache, shared pool. I have
>tried them all and so far the results have not been satisfactory. I am
>wondering if I missed something important.

Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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