I have a strange problem. Normally I rebuild all the indexes that becomes invalid after 'alter table tablename move' command. Then the indexes again become valid. But since last couple of days some particular indexes have been becoming invalid after getting rebuilt and staying valid for some time after the rebuild. Please share your ideas about the incident.
I have a strange problem. Normally I rebuild all the indexes that becomes invalid after 'alter table tablename move' command. Then the indexes again become valid. But since last couple of days some particular indexes have been becoming invalid after getting rebuilt and staying valid for some time after the rebuild. Please share your ideas about the incident.
An index will become invalid - or unusable, only when base table's rowid values are changed. This happens when you do "alter table move", split or move table partitions, etc.
My guess is that table maintenance was not completed at the time index reorganization was initiated or, a second maintenance job was started after index reorganization got complete.
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I am not clear with the point "a second maintenance job was started after index reorganization got complete". Could you please elaborate it please?
Indeed I can.
I understand indexes got rebuild then after a while indexes went back to invalid/unusable state, is that correct?
If that's correct the most likely scenario is that after index rebuild process completed a process doing either "alter table move..." or "split/add partition..." or "direct path sqlloader" or "..." was executed invalidating indexes one more time. Experience and Oracle documentation say there are just few causes for index invalidation.
On the other hand, if you can prove indexes go invalid spontaneously better to open a SR with Oracle
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