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Unique Index Is Going Unusable State After Data Loading Using SQL*Loader (Doc ID 2184469.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.4 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Index (unique) state changing to unusable status after data loading using SQL*Loader. The steps below are executed to load the data:

1/ disable constraint
2/ load data using SQL*Loader
3/ remove duplicate records
4/ enable constraint

The execution of step 3 fails due to an index in unusable state:

Checking the available indexes and their status from dba_indexes, we have:

INDEX_NAME INDEX_TYPE STATUS TABLE_NAME
<INDEX_NAME>_PK NORMAL UNUSABLE <TABLE_NAME1>
<INDEX_NAME>_PK NORMAL VALID <TABLE_NAME2>

Changes

 

Cause

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