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Index thrashing still after Alter table move and new building of indexes.

From: Leonard, George <GLeonard_at_wesbank.co.za>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:09:41 +0200
Message-ID: <31779D7666D8D11181BC0000F6B2EF7A0B929E0C@KRKMSG01>


Hi all

quick question:

Does an alter table xxx move tablespace do a block for block move or does it repack the table.

we are having a problem on physical to logical IO on a specific 2 tables and specific 2 indexes on the tables for a specific update statement.

It seems to be just thrashing/spinning its wheels when using these indexes.

We rebuild the FK indexes on Tuesday morning and this resolved the problem where the update returned to under 10 min, but this morning it said expected to complete time of 7 hours,

we just went thought a process of dropping all constraint and related indexes, moving the 2 tables to new tablespaces and building completely new indexes and it seems this did not fix the problem.

We are wondering if the problem is not maybe actual data related since the analyzes did not return/report any errors.

Oracle version is 9.2.0.4 on Sparc 64, Solaris 2.8 aka 8

Ideas, comments please

George



George Leonard
Oracle Database Administrator
New Dawn Technologies @ Wesbank
E-mail:gleonard_at_wesbank.co.za  

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From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 21:56 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Creating Histograms

Comments as always
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:37:21 -0400, Freeman, Donald <dofreeman_at_state.pa.us> wrote:
> OK, I understand your point about gathering on schedule. I'm moving into =
> taking over a turn-key contractor developed system. We are doing =
> stats/computed every day. We only add, at most, a few thousand records =
> a day. This is much, much less than 10%. We converted a few million =
> records, about five years worth of records, from four or five other =
> public health databases but our daily accrual is relatively small. I =
> probably wouldn't have to run stats once in a month.

take note of how many records you add to relatively *small* tables. 13 rows added to one of our tables caused hell until we gathered stats again (and it took ages for anyone to admit that anything ahd changed). That would be 13 rows in the sense of another financial year to add to the 2 existing ones - so hardly significant at all :).

I guess I'm saying different objects might have different stats needs.

>We also don't =
> collect system stats. I'm hoping to get enough information here to 'have =
> a meeting' and get all of that changed, the method and rate of =
> collection.

Test system stats carefully (I'm probably too cautious on this), but system stats are likely to make quite a noticeable difference to execution times. It is, I'm increasingly convinced, the *right* thing to do. It doesn't mean that you may not have adverse effects. Overall system stats have been positive for our test financial environmentenough  so that they get introduced with the next software upgrade that is running there - but there has been the odd hiccup.

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