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Thread: Index size bigger than table itself ?

  1. #1
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    Please,

    Hello support team.

    I don't understand why a index is most big than the table itself, i have a table with 84,003,248 rows and i obtain the size as follow , used blocks * block size / 1024 then
    (1,261,771 * 8192)/1024 = 10,094,168 -> 10GB and the
    index have 1,444,252 * 8192 / 1024 = 11,554,016 -> 11.5GB

    the index was created with : pct_free = 10

    Best regards
    japerez

    thanks for your tips now im running the command
    validate index
    and then query the index_stats to determine the porcentage of deleted , unfilled leaf rows in the index

    [Edited by japerez on 07-27-2001 at 06:21 PM]

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    when you delete then insert the free space of table segments is reused but not the indexes, have you tried rebuild indexes?

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    describe the table and indexes
    Oracle DBA and Developer

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    this usually happens when you almost include all columns
    in your index

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