RE: Does Dropping a table affect it's indexes?

2004-02-20 Thread Jeff McKeon
the table? Thanks for the help! Jeff -Original Message- From: Chris Nolan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:35 PM To: Steve Edberg Cc: Jeff McKeon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does Dropping a table affect it's indexes? Steve Edberg wrote: It's my

Re: Does Dropping a table affect it's indexes?

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Edberg
It's my understanding that doing a simple delete delete from table_name actually DOES drop and recreate the table (and thus its indexes). On the other hand, if you are continually adding deleting records, you might well need to do a periodic 'analyze table_name' or 'optimize

Re: Does Dropping a table affect it's indexes?

2004-02-19 Thread Chris Nolan
Steve Edberg wrote: It's my understanding that doing a simple delete delete from table_name actually DOES drop and recreate the table (and thus its indexes). On the other hand, if you are continually adding deleting records, you might well need to do a periodic 'analyze table_name'