Return-Path: Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (root@localhost) by orafaq.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8U0bRF28793 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:37:27 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.213 Received: from www2.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-213.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.213]) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8U0bRc28788 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:37:27 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by www2.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h8TLv3o04787 for oracle-l@orafaq.net; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:57:03 -0700 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005D1666; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:54:40 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:54:40 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Binley Lim" Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Binley Lim" Subject: Re: BAARF Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Havent' you heard about the theory of relativity? 1 - ideal - full recovery with indexes 2 - relatively less than ideal - having to rebuild indexes It doesn't mean you should aim for 2, but you sure want to keep 2 as an option. If you don't have separate index tablespaces, you are simply limiting your options. In a recovery situation you want all the options you can get! > Indexes are largely built for one of two reasons > > A) to make performance acceptable. > B) to enforce constraints. > > In a media recovery situation, recovering but with unacceptable > performance or locking issues probably doesn't really constitute > recovery. Now If it can be shown that trashing the index tablespace and > rebuilding is generally faster than restoring datafiles and applying > logs I might be more convinced but at the moment I'm not so sure. So is > this garbage Or not.? > > Niall -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Binley Lim INET: Binley.Lim@xtra.co.nz Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).