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Re: estimate index size on 9i

From: Digeratus 2006 <digeratus2006_at_nospam.hotmaildotcom>
Date: 16 Jan 2007 17:31:58 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns98BA809C8BE4Bdigeratus2006@63.218.45.20>


"oracle dba" <aoracledba_at_gmail.com> wrote in news:1168929159.960451.140580 @q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> hi all,
>
> in oracle 10g we can use dbms_space package to find estimate index size
> before create that one. How it is possible in oracle 9i.
>

You can RTFM, but a simple rule of thumb is (length of all of the columns in the index) * (number of rows) *

         (the size of your thumb)
My thumb is 1.5

Received on Tue Jan 16 2007 - 11:31:58 CST

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