how can you protect read-only indexes? 2005-03-03 - By Carmen Rusu
This is about a datawarehouse ETL job.
It's scheduled via crontab and runs once a month.
Before a good run, I move the affected tablespaces in read-write by
running a script manually, not via crontab like the rest of the ETL.
When the load finishes I move them back to read-only mode, same way as
at the beginning.
Last week the ETL just run second time due to a crontab schedule
mistake. Obviously, in this case the tablespace alter to read-write
didnt happen, saving the most time consuming part of the ETL, the table
loads.
The sql*loader part is protected by a sentinel file.
The truncate table doesnt happen on a read-only tablespace.
So I am left with the indexes - how do I protect them?
Rebuilding the indexes is easy and takes about 4h.
The problem is the data warehouse slows to unusable until I do it so I
want to foolproof it.
Thanks,
-Carmen Rusu
>>> "Khedr, Waleed" <Waleed.Khedr@(protected)> 3/3/2005 11:03:17 AM >>>
You need to configure accounts and security differently.
Don't give owner id to developers.
Waleed
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Subject: how can you protect read-only indexes?
Oracle EE 9.2.0.4 64 bit
SunOS 5.8 64bit
data warehouse db ~100gb right now, growing every month
no partitioning yet
Just verified that you can drop an index when its underlying
tablespace
is in read-only mode.
It happened when an ETL job ran second time, by mistake. The
corresponding tables, also on read-only tablespaces, survived ok the
truncate op.
So, what can I do to foolproof my ETL, so that the indexes are not
dropped by mistake next time?=20
Thanks,
-Carmen Rusu
Oracle DBA
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