Re: how can you protect read-only indexes?

Hi carmen, move to a tablespace, and make it read only.

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:03:01 -0600, Carmen Rusu <carmen.rusu_at_rrc.state.tx.us> wrote:
> Oracle EE 9.2.0.4 64 bit
> SunOS 5.8 64bit
> data warehouse db ~100gb right now, growing every month
> no partitioning yet
>
> Just verified that you can drop an index when its underlying tablespace
> is in read-only mode.
>
> It happened when an ETL job ran second time, by mistake. The
> corresponding tables, also on read-only tablespaces, survived ok the
> truncate op.
>
> So, what can I do to foolproof my ETL, so that the indexes are not
> dropped by mistake next time?
>
> Thanks,
> -Carmen Rusu
> Oracle DBA
>
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