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Subject: Time taken to build new Access path on file with Deleted Records
From: Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:42:14 -0400
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Hi,

Is there any substantial difference in the time taken to build an Access
path for a new logical file if the physical file has a high number of
deleted records.

The file I am concerned about has only about 4.5 million records but it
also has about 300 million Deleted records.

All other things being equal, would the time to create a new logical
differ, if there were no deleted records?

TIA
Vinay

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