Re: Inserts are taking time !

Thanks Chris,
So than any clues how to resolve this issue, as earliest, becuase this is causing bottleneck in our application .

Rgds,
Marul.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:29 AM

> Good question, Jared! Perhaps 'overflow' is technically not the correct
> term to use to decribe this scenario but it seemed to fit the bill
> sufficiently to mail off a quick one-liner solution without going into
great
> depth. Some of us have work to do, you know ;)
>
> To redeem myself I probably should have mentioned that this table sounds
> pretty volatile. Consequently the index(es) are likely to end up fairly
> disorganized, especially if the 350k records are being inserted in
> ascending order. Once you start adding levels to the index things start
to
> slow down....
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 04 September 2002 16:50
> To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; chris.w.johnson_at_bt.com
>
>
> On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:23, chris.w.johnson_at_bt.com wrote:
> > It sounds to me like the indexes are going into overflow - this will
cause
>
> What do you mean by 'overflow'?
>
> Jared
>
> > the insert time to increase. I would suggest batching up the inserts,
> > dropping the indexes, running the inserts and re-creating the indexes.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: 04 September 2002 07:53
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have a table which can contain more than half a million records. When
> we
> > try to insert some 10k records in the empty table it get inserted in 10
> > min. but as the size increases time taken to insert also increases.
After
> > 350,000 records it takes around an hour to insert 10k records.
> > There are around 15 columns in it out of which 11 are indexed. There is
> one
> > concatenated function-based index on two columns of Varchar type and two
> > separate index for the same two columns.
> >
> > I have checked the free space for the tablespaces to which the table and
> > indexes are attached to. They are in two separate tbs.
> >
> > Any clues why this is happenning.
> >
> > TIA
> > Marul.
>
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