The purpose of any database is to store data. To do this, you create tables in your database. Oracle Database provides many different table types, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
How the data is stored directly affects how efficiently the data is retrieved. It is not difficult to imagine that when data that is queried together is also stored together, it is faster than when data is stored all over the ...
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