Good one! By the way, I personally think that anyone who does a direct load into a table concurrently subject to an online index rebuild has worse problems than an Oracle "bug." Perhaps the "bug" is that online index rebuild does not make a direct load attempt wait. mwf -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:41 PM To: Josh Collier Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: index maintenance tracing and debugging event One way would be to dump redo :) There's also a following event, which traces delayed index maintenance operations (so, possibly not every single index maintenance op, but only the bulk-delayed ones): 12837, 00000, "Delayed index maintenance debugging event" // *Document: NO // *Cause: // *Action: Control dumping of debugging information for dealyed maintenanc It's mentioned here: *Bug 11795952 - Direct load insert may result in ORA-1 errors during concurrent online index rebuild operation [ID 11795952.8] * *"If event 12837 is set to level 31, the we see that there are multiple rows being inserted into the index bufffer (kxib) for the same index."* I've never used it myself, so better ask from support before running this in production ... -- *Tanel Poder* Enkitec (The Exadata Experts) Training <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/> | Troubleshooting<http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> | Exadata<http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Apress/dp/1430233923> | Voicee App <http://voic.ee/> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Josh Collier <Josh.Collier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for an event to set that will debug/trace oracle index > maintenance operations. Such as the type of maintenance that occurs > automatically when you work on a table with global indexes. I am hoping > there is an event to set that will give me more information than what I get > from 10046, > > Thanks! > > Josh C. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l