Re: Getting Number of Rows in CTAS across DBLink

[Arup Nanda]

Dan,   Are you referring to an index on the source table (which is remote)? Since I'm creating the table on the destination side, there is no index. However, I am creating several indexes after the table created.   The answer is to use SQL%ROWCOUNT. I'm curious - how will an index help?   Thanks for the help.   Arup ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Fink To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Getting Number of Rows in CTAS across DBLink Arup, Any chance there will be an index on the table? Daniel   "Arup Nanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  11/07/2003 12:34 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L         To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:          Subject:        Getting Number of Rows in CTAS across DBLink   List, When I create a table as select * from another table across a dblink, how do I find out how many rows were created in the table? Is there a statistic somewhere, documented or otherwise, that tells me how many rows were fetched? Currently I am using a rather convoluted approach - using the statistic, bytes received via SQL*Net to dblink, and dividing that by the average row size to get an approximate idea of the number of rows. However, this approximation is far from even reasonably accurate; and since the rowsize can change radically, it can be way off the mark. Any help or pointers will be highly appreciated. Thanks. Arup Nanda