Re: how to estimate space saved with index reuild

export the database, indexes are not exported.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Allan Plesniarski" <aplesnia_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:9133dq$jik$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi, we have a tar|gzip of a production database that takes too long.
> One suggestion for shortening the time is to rebuild the indexes,
> thereby removing the deleted nodes and shortening the tar|gzip time.
> In order to do a cost/benefit analysis, how does one estimate the
> amount of space freed after rebuilding an index?
>
> Any other way to speed up a tar|gzip?
> Database size is approx 50 GB.
>
> Thanks,
> Allan
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 12:01:51 CST