We are needing to make an index change to the primary index on one of our largest tables. The current index is something similar to:
index01 => fund, mem-ext, calculation-date, calculation-type
and we need to change it to
index01 => fund, mem-ext, calculation-type, calculation-date
There are a few different options, and we are unsure what the impact is on replication, AI and database activity for the following:
We're thinking of leading towards #2, maybe #3.
Cheers
As far as I know none of these options should have an impact on AI or Replication. The index change will go into the AI and Replicate across.
Of course, to be 100% sure you'd want to test it ;)
Be careful with #3 as if you ever do an index rebuild of all indexes then the old index would be reactivated.
If the table contains millions of records, the AI data generated from the index work may be significant. Might want to see how much AI data is created from these tests.