Analyze index validate structure
  checks the index for self-consistency

analyze table xxx validate structure cascade;
  checks that the table is valid and consistent
  with all its indexes. i.e. if a row exists it is  
  indexed and if an index entry exists there is
  a matching row.

This checks every index, and remember that it locks the table


Regards

Jonathan Lewis
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>
> Subject: Analyze index validate structure
> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:01:06 -0400
> From: "Schauss, Peter" <peter.schauss@(protected)>
>
> I am still trying to track down the source of an intermittent Ora-01410
> error. If the above command returns no errors does this assure me that
> all of the leaves on the index point to valid rows in the target table?
>
> (Oracle 8.1.7.4 on SunOS 5.9).
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Schauss
>

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