Raj, That makes sense. So the resync gets the new records into the indexes and the optimize cleans everything up. I just tried and it looks like optimize cleans up deletes, and resync does the inserts. OK - thanks Raj! Tom ________________________________ From: rjamya [mailto:rjamya@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:31 AM To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) Cc: Marquez, Chris; Peter.Hitchman@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CTX Indexes Tom, We have a bunch of ctx indexes, some we sync every half hour, some every hour. We optimize them weekly. Everything is done through cron for us. Raj ------------------------------ select standard_disclaimer from company_requirements where category = 'MANDATORY'; -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l