Tony is thinking along the same lines I was. Go ahead and capture the
outlines and then querying the DD where the indexes aren't found in the
OL$HINTS.HINT_TEXT column could tell you what indices haven't been used.
Something like:
select i.owner, i.table_name, i.index_name
from dba_indexes i, outln.OL$HINTS h
where index_name not like ('%'||hint_text||'%')
and owner not in ('SYS','SYSTEM','PORTAL30','DES6I')
Just add the schema's to exclude. Only as good as the code coverage from
your collection timeframe but still seems like a pretty solid approach.
Anyone tried this? I've kicked it around but have never actually tried it in
anything other than a test environment.
Regards,
Larry G. Elkins
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:31 PM
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Another option you have if your Oracle version is high enough is to use
Stored Outlines. Enable automatic generation of stored outlines for a full
processing cycle as defined by the application (full month, Qtr, etc.) Then
extract all of the indexes used during that cycle from OL$HINTS.HINT_TEXT
(i.e.. WHERE HINT_TEXT LIKE 'INDEX%'). If all of your application code has
been traversed in the cycle then this list will be pretty darn close to real
usage. Even if you can't wait until year-end processing, you can eliminate
the bulk of code to be mined for embedded SQL and focus on those once-a-year
programs.
HTH
Tony Aponte
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:55 PM
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Hi
I there any view which can tell us which indexes are not in use?
Thx
-Seema
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