In article <6m922i$hbo$1_at_news.worldonline.nl>, John Vernes
<vernes.j_at_consunet.nl> writes
>Hi, can anyone tell what local indexes are????
>
>If I am correct it are indexes placed on partitioned tables.
>
local indexes are partitioned indexes, ie: yes, indexes on
each of the partitions on a partitioned table.
>I also read that doing this would cause indexes to be smaller and
>quicker accessed.
>
Yes, also helps when truncating a partition. If you had
global indexes then they would be marked unusable after
the truncate partition.
Steve
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"The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Received on Thu Jun 18 1998 - 17:15:42 CDT
