Keep Your Systems Accessible During an Object Reorganization
   

Oracle Enterprise Manager Reorg Wizard

Every database administrator's goal is to reduce planned downtime and increase application availability.  Oracle9i provides a powerful mechanism to reorganize and redefine tables and indexes while keeping them online and available to application users. Table and index reorganization improves application performance.  Administrators can now perform a variety of online reorganization operations while users have full access to all objects.

Over time, database performance can be affected by problems such as row chaining or migration and index stagnation. Oracle Enterprise Manager Reorg Wizard helps you maintain a well performing database by correcting space usage problems.  In addition, the Reorg Wizard gives the option to perform these operations online while the objects are fully accessible.

The Reorg Wizard can eliminate space problems by reorganizing database space usage. It also allows you to change objects storage settings and location. The Reorg Wizard gives you three reorganization options:

  • Reorganize specific schema objects, such as tables or indexes
  • Reorganize an entire tablespace
  • Repair migrated rows
The Reorg Wizard performs reorganizations completely within the Oracle database using SQL.  Reorganizations can be performed within the target tablespace or by temporarily using space in another tablespace. The Reorg Wizard allows you to indicate whether the generated script should favor availability or speed.  If availability is chosen, the generated script will take full advantage of online capabilities supported by the server.  On the other hand, if speed is chosen, the generated script will always use an off-line reorganization approach.  The Reorg Wizard evaluates the reorganization operations and generates an Impact Report and reorganization script as shown below.

These reports can be reviewed prior to execution and the administrators can decide on the appropriate next steps. Reorganizations can be performed immediately or can be scheduled to be performed at a later time,  perhaps during off-peak hours.

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