What is Index?

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What is Index?..

Answer / g.arangaraj

Index is one of the databse object.it is used to quickly
locate the particular record.

i.e.if a table contains thousand's of record, in which
retrieving the particular record is difficult.so if we
create index in primary key column, we can retrieve
particular record very soon. so we can save the time.

ex.create index indexname for tablename of columnname.

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What is Index?..

Answer / the who

Index is list of keywords/keys/words that represent a unique
record/tuple.

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