Re: alter index rebuild (NOT ONLINE)

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

>If no-one's mentioned it in this thread so far,
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>http://www.dbazine.com/jlewis14.shtml
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>"Norman Dunbar" <Norman_at_RE-MO-VE.BountifulSolutions.co.uk> wrote in
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>>I suspect we won't agree on this one, but I say 'never rebuild
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>indexes
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>>unless you really have to'.
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Good article. Unfortunately, just to the right of it, was an add for a book title: "Oracle Index
Management Secrects". I wonder if the book contains a single page with a single sentence
paragraph ... "Build them correctly and then leave them alone." Probably not. ;-)

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