what is index?

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Answer / guest

Index is used for fast retrieving of data from table.

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Answer / mohan

With the help of index we can access the data quickly from
the table....

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what is index?..

Answer / rad

An index is an oracle object that stores ROWID (pointer)
and columns(s) data on a source table. Two main types are
B-tree and Bitmap. An index is crucial as it can preempt
unnessessary full table scans on the source table if the
queried data is included the indexed column(s). B-tree
primarily useful in OLTP and Bitmap is DSS (generally..)

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what is index?..

Answer / premsagar

Index is used to retrive the date from the table.i.e,. it
point's out the field's which we specify.......

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