Re: index on table with 3 million rows ???

2001-04-12 Thread Tim Sawmiller
That's an awfully strange extent size (514k). Why don't you make it bigger, and make it divisible by your database block size? This would reduce wasted space. Also, do you really need all 8 columns indexed? If it's just for performance, you might be able to get away with using fewer columns

RE: index on table with 3 million rows ???

2001-04-11 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Aren't you running out of extents because your initial and next extent size is so small? I would increase the extent size at least to the block size or a multiple of the block size. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi,

RE: index on table with 3 million rows ???

2001-04-11 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Leslie, 1. First of all, if you are on 8i, I'd strongly consider index compression CREATE INDEX INX ON TAB(N,M,...) COMPRESS . Depending on your data, I' set compression level up to 7. This would greatly reduce index size. 2. as soon as 514K*4080/300 approx gives 700 byte I wonder, do you

RE: index on table with 3 million rows ???

2001-04-11 Thread udaycb
You have to add another datafile to index tablespace and also increase the temp tablespace size. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I need to build an index on a table of 80 columns with 3 million rows. The ind