Chuck,
Do you think these indexes are corrupt? Validate structure doesn't give you statistics like Compute Statistics or Estimate Statistics does.
Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
618-622-4145
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From: Chuck Hamilton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to determine whether or not a couple of indexes need to be rebuilt.
The problem is the indexes are quite large and on a 24x7 high volume
database. If I try to run an "analyze validate structure" to gather the data
I need to make that decision, it sets a lock on the table for about an hour
which I can't afford to do. There is no slow time when I can do this and
management has said before they're not going to spring for the partitioning
option to break the indexes up into managable pieces. Is there some other
way I can get the information needed to determine if an index needs to be
rebuilt or not without setting a lock on the table? We are on Oracle 8.1.7.
