Re: My first large table

Thanks to evetyone for their replies.

I have one question....if I need to reorganise the indexes, how do I do it?

John

"Burton Peltier" <burttemp1REMOVE_THIS_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<MaqSa.7998$ci.2018_at_fe02.atl2.webusenet.com>...
> The number of rows don't mean much and even if you grow to 20 Million rows,
> it probably (depends on total table size) would perform well with the basic
> type stuff covered like (as 1 example) no full table scans in explain plan
> output.
>
> But, I think a more significant number is the total size of the table in
> number of bytes, not rows.
>
> For example, 2 tables with the same number of rows could have significantly
> different total sizes. If you have a lot of large columns with data, then
> the total size of the table in Megabytes will be much higher than a table
> with just a few small columns.
>
> --
> "John Leslie" <johnleslie_at_madasafish.com> wrote in message
> news:4412dd31.0307180425.760beccc_at_posting.google.com...
> > Currently have a small database with no table having more than 50000
> > rows.
> > Now we have a requirement to load large amounts of data into a table
> > which will be held for 3 months, resulting in several million rows.
> > The data will be loaded using sqlldr and thereafter queried for adhoc
> > report purposes only.
> >
> > Just want to know, what are the basic things I need to do in setting
> > up this table to ensure decent performance.
> >
> > Do I need to reorganize the table indexes on regular basis to retain
> > performance? If so how? As you can tell I'm quite new at this!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > JL
Received on Wed Aug 13 2003 - 14:29:23 CDT