How much temp space required to rebuid index

use NVL on the vsize output if there might be any null columns

Hi,

is the above formula is to calculate the estimated size of the index or for the space required in the temporary tablespace to rebuild the index?

I need to calcuate the estimated tempory tablespace space required to redbuild the index..

Thanks..

yes, that's for temp but again, it's just an estimate

oracle will attempt to do as much of the sorting in memory as it can.

your sort area size can be subtracted from the total above to determine how much of the sorting will have to be done in TEMP vs memory.  still an estimate but a little closer

In such cases I investigate the temporary tablespaces size every 5 minutes using the query:

select TABLESPACE_NAME, BYTES_USED/1024/1024 MEGS_USED, BYTES_FREE/1024/1024 MEGS_FREE from V$TEMP_SPACE_HEADER;

If the tablespace gets used I do two things:

1. Try to activate SMON to clean the tablespace (this is complex action)
2. Increase the size of the tablespace:

ALTER DATABASE TEMPFILE '/oracle/OMIS/oradata7/tempOMIS.dbf5' RESIZE 10000M;

OR

add aditional datafiles to the temporary tablespace.

After the rebuild fibishes it is possible to resize the tablespace.

>>>  Try to activate SMON to clean the tablespace (this is complex action)

If the temp segments are in use to hold the index key data being sorted, this won't work because there is nothing to be cleaned.

>>> Increase the size of the tablespace:

 or , possibly better, create a new dedicated temp space and assign that temp to the user that is doing the rebuild

this way your rebuild won't impact or be impacted by other processes consuming temp in your normal TEMP space.

allow the new temp space to grow as needed then drop it when the rebuild is done

Thanks... i got the answers partially