RE: Analyzing indexes

Chuck,

Do you think these indexes are corrupt? Validate structure doesn't give you statistics like Compute Statistics or Estimate Statistics does.

Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Hamilton [SMTP:chuckh_at_softhome.net]
>
> I need to determine whether or not a couple of indexes need to be rebuilt.
> The problem is the indexes are quite large and on a 24x7 high volume
> database. If I try to run an "analyze validate structure" to gather the data
> I need to make that decision, it sets a lock on the table for about an hour
> which I can't afford to do. There is no slow time when I can do this and
> management has said before they're not going to spring for the partitioning
> option to break the indexes up into managable pieces. Is there some other
> way I can get the information needed to determine if an index needs to be
> rebuilt or not without setting a lock on the table? We are on Oracle 8.1.7.
>

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