I think that the reference to "build the indexes" referres to the moving of the table 
and not the truncating. I believe that the indexes become invalid after for move a 
table and have to be rebuild. Oracle looses the "link" to the tables location when it 
is moved. Like someone moving your car while you are at work. You have to be informed 
where it is.
ROR m���m

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/01 12:20PM >>>
Actually Chris if you truncate a table, the indexes on the table are
truncated right along with it.  You don't end up with a sparse index, like
when you delete many rows.  Try it.  I did (8.1.6)  and was very happy to
see this behavior.  

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
954-935-4117


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grabowy, Chris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:20 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject:      RE: Speed up Truncate tables
> 
> Don't forget to rebuild your indexes...
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>       Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:35 PM
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>       Subject: RE: Speed up Truncate tables
>       
>       
>       Cool!  I just tried it - works like a charm!
>        
> 
>       Tom Mercadante 
>       Oracle Certified Professional 
> 
>               -----Original Message-----
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>               
>               
> 
>               Not true, at least in 8i. Using 'alter table move ' you
> could change the initial extent size.. 
>               
>               SQL>alter table test move storage (initial 2M); 
>               
>               Table altered. 
>               
>               Only catch here is that 'move' command doesn't apply to
> tables having long ,long raw, LOB etc..Initial extent can be changed for
> the remaining tables.. 
>               
>               Thanks
>               Riyaj "Re-yas" Shamsudeen
>               Certified Oracle DBA
>               i2 technologies   www.i2.com 
>               
>               
>               
>       Christopher Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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> 08/15/01 02:22 PM 
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> 
>               You are correct, unless your using 9i, you cannot alter the
> initial extent
>               without dropping the table.
>               
>               "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their
> shoes, that way
>               when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their
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>               
>               Thomas,
>               are your sure you can change the initial extent?  My senior
> dba told me once
>               it is not possible; you have to drop and recreate table if
> there is a need
>               to change Initial extent. I am going to play with it today.
>               
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>               Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:27 PM
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>               
>               Chuan,
>               
>               Kevin is correct.  If your truncate table is taking a *long*
> time (and the
>               table is not locked by another process), it's because your
> storage params
>               are incorrect for the amount of data you are holding.
>               
>               Look at initial and next in comparison with the number of
> extents
>               (DBA_EXTENTS view) for the table in question, and modify
> them before you
>               load the data. You can modify the INITIAL extent by issuing
> an 'alter table
>               allocate extent(size x)' command to grow the INITIAL extent.
> 
>               You can also modify the NEXT extent by issuing an 'alter
> table storage (next
>               x)' command to change the NEXT extent.
>               
>               hope this helps.
>               
>               Tom Mercadante
>               Oracle Certified Professional
>               
>               
>               -----Original Message-----
>               Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:02 AM
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>               
>               
>               I had the same problem when truncating a huge table (24 Mill
> rows).   It
>               turned out that the reason my table was taking so long was
> the amount of
>               extents I had on it.  I could look at what was actually
> happening during a
>               truncate and it had to go and take each individual block and
> put them back
>               in the available lists.  
>               
>               Well, after changing the settings on the table to make
> larger extents (and
>               therefore fewer) the truncates on that table went hundreds
> of times faster
>               (we had real bad settings on that table before).
>               
>               You might investigate your storage parms and see just how
> many extents you
>               do have on that table.
>               
>               -----Original Message-----
>               Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:10 AM
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>               
>               Hi All,
>               
>                  Is there any way to speed up the truncating a big table
> with 12 million
>               rows?
>               
>               Basically, I implemented truncating that big table on
> Production, but it
>               affected the performance much, so I had to stop it in the
> middle of way. All
>               the rows were truncated but the HWM was not shrunk at all. I
> want to do it
>               again to get the space back. Is there any way to speed up
> this process?
>               
>               Platform: Oracle EE8.0.6 and Solaris 2.7
>               
>               Thanks a lot in advance.
>               
>               Chuan
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