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Re: Never rebuild Indexes?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:16:22 -0800
Message-ID: <1170609382.198227@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Oradba Linux wrote:
> We are running a 4 node RAC on RHEL 3.0. We have a table with 300mil
> rows that has an pk index upto 12Gb and we rebuilt it it came down to
> 6g. The data into this table was loaded with concurrent inserts from
> different sessions. This table is on ASSM tablespace. Same thing with
> many other indexes.

Given it is a RAC cluster I must ask ... What type of index?
Does the primary key include the instance identifier? What performance metric indicates the rebuild is accomplishing anything?

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Sun Feb 04 2007 - 11:16:22 CST

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