-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/07 14:51, Benjamin Arai wrote: > I would prefer not to drop the index because the database is several > hundred gigs. I would prefer to incrementally add to the index. Some RDBMSs (well, one that I know of) has the ability to defer index updates during data load, and it actually works very well. The down side is that if there's a unique value constraint failure, you don't know which record it failed on. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDCClS9HxQb37XmcRAo0pAKCwqYwXOAPIXK25L9zhWhtGMFi/hwCgtA+x zgc5Bz8wrVQ5UGocGe5v3s4= =aFmR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----