The data are not sorted as far as I know. The indices are being dropped daily and rebuilt after a batch load into the table thank you Gene Gurevich "Hallas, John (EXP N-ARM)" <john.hallas@lmco To .com> genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/18/2007 02:50 cc AM Subject RE: tunning an index build Is the table data sorted in any way. Can it be sorted? Are you building these indexes (I should write indices I know but it never seems right) regularly or just as a one off. If regularly then the rebuild option should be much faster John -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx Hi all: I think I have posted on this issue before, but I can't find my old Emails so - sorry for the repeated question. Here is the situation. I am running oracle 9208 and have a 40G table with a lot of indices - mostly bitmap Their sizes are under 1G. These indices take about 20 to 30 minutes to build. That seems to be too long. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l