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My thoughts mirrored Tims.
Though after seeing Jonathan Lewis force a very small index to a blevel of 3 with the clever use of data and storage parms and who knows what else, I decided there was a distinct possibility that I was wrong.
I've refrained from asking Steve how he did this, but if I see him at dinner this evening, I will find out and report back. :)
Jared
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Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com>
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It would take a heckuva lot of space, even with DB_BLOCK_SIZE = 512 and PCTFREE=99 on the index, to get BLEVEL over 10...
Hat's off to Steve on getting it to 20+...
on 3/9/04 7:18 AM, Richard Foote at richard.foote_at_bigpond.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently writing a rather detailed paper for our local user group
on
> Index Internals, tentatively titled "Index Internals - Rebuilding The
> Truth". I haven't had this much fun with tree and block dumps for quite
a
> while ;)
>
> One of the many myths I'm exposing is the "rebuild if index has more
than 2,
> 3, 4, 42, whatever levels". Now to get an honary mention in the paper
(what
> more reward can one wish for !!), I would love to know who on the list
has
> created an index with the greatest height and perhaps a little info on
it's
> circumstance.
>
> Steve Adams once mentioned to me creating an index with 20+ levels, can
> anyone else come close ?
>
> Thanks for any replies.
>
> Richard
>
>
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