Re: Rebuilding Indexes Question

>From 1st hand experience, folks need to be warned that
the last time I did this during normal working hours on an index on a production table, the order entry department could no longer commit new orders. They were "hung" until the index rebuild completed. So use with caution.

Deepak Thapliyal wrote:

> Jacques
>
> i think oracle puts exclusive locks on the table on
> which you are trying to create an index. that reason
> should be good enough to use the "rebuild online"
> option instead of create/drop especially for systems
> that require to be available all the time
>
> Deepak
>
> --- Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cjordan_at_smcwv.com [mailto:cjordan_at_smcwv.com]
> > >
> > > What are the advantages/disadvantages to doing a
> > alter index rebuild
> > > (Oracle 8.0.X) versus dropping and recreating the
> > index.
> >

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