And some indexes may have been used when there was a better option. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com @jloracle ________________________________________ From: Timur Akhmadeev [timur.akhmadeev@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 March 2015 11:16 To: Petr.Novak@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Jonathan Lewis; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Reduce latch row cache objects with event 10089 On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Petr Novak <Petr.Novak@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Petr.Novak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: I check continually index usage in shared pool and AWR, there are only 1-2 index candidates for elimination. Do not need to look into AWR for that. Start with listing indexes & indexed columns instead, just looking at what is indexed + at avg_data_blocks_per_key. Very often people introduce redundant & unnecessary/inefficient indexes which could be logically eliminated. -- Regards Timur Akhmadeev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l