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    Not getting count of rows

    Hi, My table 'A' has 11 million rows . I created temp table 'B' same as table A and inserted rows upto 4 million from table 'A' using where caluse.
    The data was inserted fine without any errors, But when Iam trying to do a row count on table 'b'.
    selct count(*) from b.
    But it is not giving me any output. It has been more than 30 min but still there is no output. Table A rowcount gives me in few seconds. Can any one let me know what the problem could be??

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    if you count from other session and you have not issue commit then for your counting session there is no rows

    if your table b has NO primary key it will use Full Table Scan which is slower if you are counting the whole table

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    I did give the commit after inserting. I am logged into the same user in which I created the table, but still I am not able to get the row count. THe primary keys are disabled for table A and table B.
    Table B do not have any indexes or any constraints.

    I created table B as ..
    Create table B (col1 number, col2 varchar(10)........ 15 columns)
    TABLESPACE TS012 PCTUSED 75
    PCTFREE 20
    INITRANS 1
    MAXTRANS 255
    STORAGE (
    INITIAL 2000048k
    NEXT 40000K
    MINEXTENTS 3
    MAXEXTENTS 1024
    PCTINCREASE 0
    FREELISTS 8
    FREELIST GROUPS 1
    BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
    )
    LOGGING
    NOCACHE
    NOPARALLEL;

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    if you dont have PK then obviously it is going to take much longer!

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    THe table A does not have primary key which has 11 million rows but can get the row count in seconds, but the table B which has 4 million rows do not give the row count.
    Thanks

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    reading index is faster than table, why you dont try to use autotrace and see why

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    If u don't have primary key then I would suggest you to analyze the table then do count(*), it would start using FFS instead of FTS.

    HTH

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    Originally posted by bhallar
    If u don't have primary key then I would suggest you to analyze the table then do count(*), it would start using FFS instead of FTS.

    HTH
    Do u know wat is FFS? and when will it be used ?
    funky...

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    he probably means IFFS

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