RE: Index key compression - performance benefits?

  • From: "Christian Antognini" <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:53:38 +0200

Keith

> I ran the command in a test system and all the stats were generated
> except compression. Any idea why? It is Oracle 9.2.0.4, 64 bit on
> Solaris.
<snip>
> I then dropped and recreated the index with 'compress 1' and got
> about 50% compression.

I see only two possibilities...

1) They calculation is buggy.
2) In your index there was a lot of free space. To confirm/deny this
point you could simply try to create a fresh index with and without
compression...


HTH
Chris
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