Beth, This seems to be it. If I disable to PK, the ignore for everything else is happy...so, the question becomes...
I have a table that represents quarterly data. The data in it is basically the same for every quarter...adding the period is what makes things unique. What is important from a processing standpoint is that no row in a single period be a duplicate, duplicates sans period are fine across the table. Due to indexing, loading each successive period is taking way too long, approx. 24 hours. Without indexes this is a matter of a couple hours tops. In this situation, would it make since to (yes this is heresy) NOT have a PK constraint, but have unique indexes on each partition. The UIs concatenated with the periods effectively ARE the PK, but because all the indexes are made local, I can now disable them on the new period during loads. Other than religious conviction (and for the record, I routinely tell developers to NEVER request a table without a PK), am I missing a good reason not to do this? TIA, John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I believe there is the caveat that it doesn't apply to pk indexes, because they are required to enforce the integrity constaint, although I can't find that in the documentation at the moment. Beth -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sorry...sent with the wrong heading...... -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I have a large data load to run into a partitioned table. With indexes the load takes over 24 hours, without on the order of 3 hours, obviously, I don't want to mess with the indexes until after the job completes. So I try to drop to local indexes and get ORA-14076. Fair enough. I go to metastink and see note 107976.1...exactly what I want. So I try to use it...and get ORA-01502. Has anybody done something like this and found there's an extra caveat from the note? Every other note oracle has seems to point back to the original one I am using. I'm on Solaris 8/Oracle 9.0.1.3. Any help would be appreciated. Here's the output I'm getting... SQL> select index_name, status from dba_ind_partitions where partition_name = 'TYPE13'; INDEX_NAME STATUS ------------------------------ -------- I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_3 USABLE I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_2 USABLE I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_1 USABLE PK_BUY_PRICE_PCE_TYPE_HISTORY USABLE SQL> ALTER TABLE buy_price_piece_type_history MODIFY PARTITION type13 2 UNUSABLE LOCAL INDEXES; Table altered. SQL> select index_name, status from dba_ind_partitions where partition_name = 'TYPE13'; INDEX_NAME STATUS ------------------------------ -------- I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_3 UNUSABLE I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_2 UNUSABLE I_BUY_PR_PCE_TYPE_HIST_1 UNUSABLE PK_BUY_PRICE_PCE_TYPE_HISTORY UNUSABLE SQL> ALTER SESSION SET skip_unusable_indexes = true; Session altered. SQL> insert into buy_price_piece_type_history partition (type13) select * from hold_type13; insert into buy_price_piece_type_history partition (type13) select * from hold_type13 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01502: index 'RLADMIN.PK_BUY_PRICE_PCE_TYPE_HISTORY' or partition of such index is in unusable state SQL> TIA, John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Weatherman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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