Re: Index update = Delete + insert ?

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:08:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054A5DF.20030212000838@fatcity.com>

Effectively so, unless you regularly put the same value back into the index. I haven't verified it, but in this case my understanding is that oracle does not the work at all. Of course, any index operation could invoke more work in terms of re-arranging blocks to keep the validity of the index structure.

hth
connor

• VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com> wrote: >
  > Is an index Fields' update actually a DELETE
  > followed by an INSERT of the index row ?
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