Re: Rebuilding Indexes...

  If you build a separate index to enforce the primary key, Oracle shouldn't drop it when you disable or drop the primary key.

Regards,
Denny

Quoting Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>:

> Here's a reason:
>
> have you ever tried to find the three duplicate rows in a 12 million
> row table without using the primary key constraint? I've had to
> disable
> or drop the constraint in order to use the exceptions table. Once I do
> that, even if I've built a separate index that enforces the primary
> key
> constraint, Oracle drops the index. So I HAVE to rebuild it. If I
> allow
> the index to be rebuilt when I re-enable the primary key constraint,
> it
> builds it in the default tablespace of the table owner, not where I
> want it.
>
> if anyone has a better way to fix this problem, I'm more than happy to
> hear it! It's a data warehouse and the third party app has a bug we
> can't find and on occasion sqlloads (via direct path) duplicate rows
>
> Rachel
>
> --- Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Though I have published a script for determining indexes that
> > need to be rebuilt, and then rebuilding them, I have to say that
> > this is almost never necessary.
> >
> > Why are you rebuilding indexes? About the only reason for ever
> > doing so is that the BLEVEL >= 5.
> >
> > goto asktom.oracle.com, and do a search on 'index rebuild'.
> >
> > Currently, the third article may be of interest.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:24, Richard Huntley wrote:
> > > Anyone have any useful scripts for doing this?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Rich
> >
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