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  1. #1
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    Hi,

    I have few tables under a user schema, which shows that their PK & UK indexes have reached an extent of >20. Now I would like to rebuild then and the oracle is not allowing me to do that. Since it was a STD edition, option of online rebuild is ruled out.

    1. Could some one give me the steps on how to do this?

    2. Does this pk fragmentation means that the table is also fragemted?

    3. On the above scenario, if I do an export then truncate the tables and import,

    3a) Would those indexes constrains and their indexes would get dropped, and rebuilt when the import takes place, or is it something that I have to do it manually?

    Since this being a pretty well netted, schema, I'm kind of confused on how to do things...

    Could some one please help me with some steps?

    Mr. T


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    number of extents does not mean fragmentation

    if you really want to reduce number of extents of indexes you drop them and recreate them (if alter index rebuild does not work? Or you mean alter index rebuild online?)


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    Thanx pando for the reply, but here are my scenarios

    1. Since they are of PK used by FKs, dropping them then not possible, unless and other wise you first disable the FKs and then the PKs.

    2. Disabling the PK. keeping the schema online of what I'm worried of much.

    3. I think both the rebuild options are ruled out on the STD edition. Thats the big pain!

    I'm very much interested in doing the drop and rebuild, but considering points one and two, I'm a bit confused on how to do it.

    T


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    The STD edition does support REEBUILD and you can rebuild your PK/UK/FK using this rebuild option.


    ALTER INDEX index_name REBUILD;

    If you want it to be rebuilt on another tablespace, you could make use of the TABLESPACE option after the REBUILD clause.

    Sam
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    Sam



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    Sam,

    Is it correct stating that Standard Edition doesn't support

    alter index index_name rebuild online;


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    That is true.


    Here you can see what is in and what is out


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    Online Index Build--------------------------ENTERPRISE,
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    Sam
    Thanx
    Sam



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    Originally posted by rcherch
    Sam,

    Is it correct stating that Standard Edition doesn't support

    alter index index_name rebuild online;
    Well, theN simply rebuild them without ONLINE option. What this means is that existing index will be locked during the rebuild, so no data modification on thos index will be allowed during the rebuilding time. But the index will be still used for queries!

    This is in all respect better than droping an index and recreating it:
    a) for data integrity reasons - if you drop PK index, how would you enforce uniqueness for new records during DROP/CREATE rebuild? How would you enforce referential integrity since you must disable FKs pointing to this PK?
    b) for speed of recreate - rebuild will be *much* faster than DROP/CREATE.
    c) for queries execution speed - during DROP/CREATE some of your queries might bring your system to its knees without that index available...

    But if your main objective for rebuild is to decrease the number of index extents, then the best advice is: DON'T REBUILD AT ALL!!!! It will have avsolutely no performance impact!
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