Oracle® Database SQL Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14200-01 |
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Purpose
Use the DROP
INDEX
statement to remove an index or domain index from the database.
When you drop an index, Oracle Database invalidates all objects that depend on the underlying table, including views, packages, package bodies, functions, and procedures.
When you drop a global partitioned index, a range-partitioned index, or a hash-partitioned index, all the index partitions are also dropped. If you drop a composite-partitioned index, all the index partitions and subpartitions are also dropped.
In addition, when you drop a domain index:
Oracle Database invokes the appropriate routine.
If any statistics are associated with the domain index, then Oracle Database disassociates the statistics types with the FORCE
clause and removes the user-defined statistics collected with the statistics type.
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Prerequisites
The index must be in your own schema or you must have the DROP
ANY
INDEX
system privilege.
Syntax
drop_index::=
Semantics
schema
Specify the schema containing the index. If you omit schema
, then Oracle Database assumes the index is in your own schema.
Specify the name of the index to be dropped. When the index is dropped, all data blocks allocated to the index are returned to the tablespace that contained the index.
Restriction on Dropping Indexes You cannot drop a domain index if the index or any of its index partitions is marked IN_PROGRESS
.
FORCE
applies only to domain indexes. This clause drops the domain index even if the indextype routine invocation returns an error or the index is marked IN
PROGRESS
. Without FORCE
, you cannot drop a domain index if its indextype routine invocation returns an error or the index is marked IN
PROGRESS
.
Example
Dropping an Index: Example This statement drops an index named ord_customer_ix_demo
, which was created in "Compressing an Index: Example":
DROP INDEX ord_customer_ix_demo;