-- --Original Message-- -- From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected) [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)] On Behalf Of Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:49 AM To: carmen.rusu@(protected) Cc: oracle-l@(protected) Subject: Re: how can you protect read-only indexes?
Hi carmen, move to a tablespace, and make it read only.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:03:01 -0600, Carmen Rusu <carmen.rusu@(protected)> wrote: > 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? > > Thanks, > -Carmen Rusu > Oracle DBA > > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >