Check my articles about unbalanced indexes
rebuilding indexes on www.dbazine.com first,
and see if that helps you understand. If you have
any specific questions after that, then post them
on the list.
One guide-line, though - as a one-off exercise
after a massive delete from a table, rebuilding the
indexes on that table will probably free up some
space, and may not cause a performance problem
to appear.
However, after a massive delete, you need to apply
some thought to the issue of whether or not you should
rebuilding the table, and what 's going to happen the
next time you generate statistics even in the absence of
a rebuild.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "vidya kalyanaraman " <vidya.kalyanaraman@(protected) >
To: <oracle-l@(protected) >
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Rebuild Indexes
Hi Jonathan
Thanks for the explanation. Here the customer wants to reclaim the
extra space. According to them they had massive deletes and they feel
that might have causeed the unbalanced structure and wastage of space.
Customer uses mainly B*Tree indexes.
what is your suggestion in this situation? Thanks a lot for answering
this question.
Best Regards
Vidya
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