What is an index and types of indexes. How many number of
indexes can be used per table ?

Answer Posted / alekhya

index is a database object used for increasing the
performance.

types of indexes:
1)simple index
2)composite index

Unique index
composite unique index
bitmap index
key compression index
function based index
cluster index
non-cluster index
Reverse key index

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