Hi Hemant, In the manual (SQL Reference 10g) it says: Specify whether the creation of the index will be logged (LOGGING) or not logged (NOLOGGING) in the redo log file. This setting also determines whether subsequent Direct Loader (SQL*Loader) and direct-path INSERT operations against the index are logged or not logged. LOGGING is the default.Are you not counting direct load/insert as DML, or do you believe this statement is wrong? I'd like to test it but so busy just now... Thanks Charlotte On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Why does it matter to you that some indexes have the NOLOGGING attribute > set (which is the case if they are created with NOLOGGING) ? > > NOLOGGING for an Index applies *only* at *CREATE* time . Redo for all > subsequent DML is *always* LOGGING. > > Hemant K Chitale > http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l