December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
269 pages
7h 26m
English
Of all the specialized types of indexes discussed in this book, application domain indexes are the least known and the least used by most developers and DBAs. Application domain indexes let you create your own index structures in order to implement new index types that don't currently exist in the Oracle Database. A good example of an application domain index is the way Oracle Database itself implements text indexes, which are commonly used to facilitate searching on large text items. In order to create a text index, you include the indextype clause in a create index statement, as shown here:
SQL> create index test_idx2 on test_tab(desc)
2* indextype is ctxsys.context;
Index created.
SQL>
Once you create a text ...
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