Thanks Hans, I forgot ( to mention ) that "rebuild index(es)" part of the alter table move operation. You must live in a blessed world/environment(s) where people know why a particular index exists. In my world people who might have known that have left the company, or fell victim of a "rightsizing", 8 years ago. On 2013-02-01, at 9:11 AM, Hans Forbrich wrote: > I second that: Alter Table Move ... > > With the added advantage of being able to review which indexes are still > required. Why move/rebuild them if they are no longer in use? > > "Why do we have that index?" > > "Well, we needed it for that report." > > "But we stopped using that report 8 months ago." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l