Mark,

>Also, I have heard about compressing indexes, but it is 
>something I have
>never used before.  Can anyone shed some light on the topic?  
>Are there any
>drawbacks (ie: reduced IO but increased processing)?

Kevin Loney presented a paper on this at IOUG 2002 - should be in the
archives at www.ioug.org.

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