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When Should One Rebuild An Index?

You can run the 'ANALYZE INDEX VALIDATE STRUCTURE' command on the affected indexes - each invocation of this command creates a single row in the INDEX_STATS view. This row is overwritten by the next ANALYZE INDEX command, so copy the contents of the view into a local table after each ANALYZE. The 'badness' of the index can then be judged by the ratio of 'DEL_LF_ROWS' to 'LF_ROWS'.

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When Should One Rebuild An Index?

You can run the 'ANALYZE INDEX VALIDATE STRUCTURE' command on the affected indexes - each invocation of this command creates a single row in the INDEX_STATS view. This row is overwritten by the next ANALYZE INDEX command, so copy the contents of the view into a local table after each ANALYZE. The 'badness' of the index can then be judged by the ratio of 'DEL_LF_ROWS' to 'LF_ROWS'.

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When should one rebuild an index?

Submitted by OraFAQ admin on Sun, 2005-12-25 18:54.


Original: http://www.orafaq.com/faq/when_should_one_rebuild_an_index

You can run the 'ANALYZE INDEX VALIDATE STRUCTURE'


command on the affected indexes - each invocation of
this command creates a single row in the INDEX_STATS
view. This row is overwritten by the next ANALYZE
INDEX command, so copy the contents of the view into a
local table after each ANALYZE. The 'badness' of the
index can then be judged by the ratio of 'DEL_LF_ROWS'
to 'LF_ROWS'.

Posted by: Sumer Singer

Submitted by sumer on Mon, 2007-09-17 05:21.

Index fragmentation occurs when a row included in the


index is deleted.

You will need to analyze indexes individually to find


those deleted indexes, once discovered they can be
rebuilt.

To analyze issue the following command :-

analyze index owner.index_name validate structure;

The above command create a single row in 'index_stats'


view.

Now find the ratio of del_lf_rows and lf_rows:-

select del_lf_rows * 100 / decode(lf_rows,0,1,lf_rows)


from index_stats

where name = 'index_ name'

If it is more than 20% of rows are deleted then the


index should be rebuilt.

The index stats table can only hold one record of


information at a time, therefore you will need to
analyze each index individually.

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