What is index? How many types of indexes?

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What is index? How many types of indexes?..

Answer / kishore

Index is a performance tuning method of allowing faster
retrieval of records. Oracle indexing is a standing B-Tree
indexing for fast retrieval.

Syntax: CREATE INDEX EmpInfo ON Employee(EmpID,Emp_Name)

we have two types indexes

1. Clustered indexes
2. Non-Clustred indexes

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What is index? How many types of indexes?..

Answer / ruchi

index is a data structure used for fast retrival of data.

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