Maintaining LCES database

Hi,
In chapter 11 (maintaining the LCES database) of the "administering LCES" guide, I read the part "Oracle database: Modifying table indexes" on p. 112. The first thing is to modify the ix_45 index of the tb_assignment table, but in our database there is no such index for this table and the ix_45 index belongs to the tb_branch_instance table and has other columns.
The manual is from october 2008.
I have a new install of LCES 8.2.1 SP1 running on jboss 4.2.0.
Any explanation for this?
Kind regards,
Els

No one has tried this before? Or do you all have this index?
Please advice....
Thanks,
Els

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The usual reaction I get when saying that we use Linux is along the lines of "+Linux is not as robust and scalable as heavy weight commercial o/s like Windows or Solaris or <insert-name-here>+".
And in actual fact, the reverse is true. The only robust and scalable o/s on this planet is Linux - if we go according to Top500.org that lists the o/s families of the biggest, baddest and fastest super computers in the world. 459 out of these 500 are running Linux. That is 91.8% of the world biggest and fastest clusters. A mere 5 (1%) are using Windows.
Bottom line is that Linux is more than just capable. It is not inferior to Windows - especially not when vast majority of the most advance computer systems in the world are running Linux and not Windows.

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