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Oracle 8 Tips  

by Burleson Consulting

The Data Warehouse Development Life Cycle

Oracle Features for the Data Warehouse

Understanding Oracle indexes

If you are collecting index statistics (i.e. your Oracle system utilizes the cost-based optimizer), you can see additional internal details for an index by running the report shown in Listing 8.1.
 

Listing 8.1 index.sql shows the details for indexes.
 

Rem © 1997 by Donald K. Burleson

set pagesize 999;

set linesize 100;

 

column c1 heading 'Index'      format a19;

column c3 heading 'S'          format a1;

column c4 heading 'Level'      format 999;

column c5 heading 'Leaf Blks'  format 999,999;

column c6 heading 'dist. Keys' format 99,999,999;

column c7 heading 'Bks/Key'    format 99,999;

column c8 heading 'Clust Ftr'  format 9,999,999;

column c9 heading 'Lf/Key'     format 99,999;

 

spool index.lst;

 

select

  owner||'.'||index_name      c1,

  substr(status,1,1)          c3,

  blevel                      c4,

  leaf_blocks                 c5,

  distinct_keys               c6,

  avg_data_blocks_per_key     c7,

  clustering_factor           c8,

  avg_leaf_blocks_per_key     c9

from Remote DBA_indexes

SEE CODE DEPOT FOR FULL SCRIPT

 

spool off;

 

Here is the output of index.sql.

 

Index               S Level Leaf Blks  dist. Keys Bks/Key  Clust Ftr  Lf/Key

 

------------------- - ----- --------- ----------- ------- ---------- -------

DON.LOB_FACT1_PK    V     2    25,816   3,511,938       1    455,343       1

 

DON.DON_EK_CUST_INV V     2    23,977   2,544,132       1  1,764,915       1

 

DON.DON_FK_GLO_DEST V     2    23,944      22,186     112  2,493,095       1

 

DON.JEN_FK_SHP      V     2    22,650   1,661,576       1    339,031       1

 

DON.DON_FK_ORL_ORIG V     2    21,449         404     806    325,675      53

 

DON.PAT_FK_JEN      V     2    21,181   2,347,812       1    996,641       1

 

DON.JEN_FK_LOB      V     2    19,989         187   4,796    896,870     106

 

DON.FACT1_PK        V     2    19,716   3,098,063       1  1,674,264       1

 

DON.DON_FK_CAR      V     2    18,513         689     390    268,859      26

 

DON.DON_EK_ROLE     V     2    17,847          10  24,613    246,134   1,784

 

DON.DON_FK_SPT      V     2    16,442           4  46,872    187,489   4,110

 

DON.INV_EK_INV_NUM  V     2    16,407   2,014,268       1    518,206       1

 

DON.DON_FK_ORL_DEST V     2    15,863         385     692    266,656      41

 

DON.DON_FK_SRC      V     2    15,827          10  17,469    174,694   1,582

 

DON.INV_LINE_ITEM   V     2    14,731   2,362,216       1    102,226       1
 


This is an excerpt from "High Performance Data Warehousing", copyright 1997. To learn more about Oracle, try "Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference", by Donald K. Burleson.  You can buy it direct from the publisher at 30% off here:
http://www.rampant-books.com/book_1002_oracle_tuning_definitive_reference_2nd_ed.htm

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