This article explores the internals of Oracle9i indexing; reviews the standard b-tree index, index-only tables, and how these indexes may increase the speed of Oracle SQL queries.

Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all indexes in a table. Oracle users typically rebuild each index in a table individually. Microsoft SQL Server ...

"Indexes are schema objects that can speed access to table rows. Index-organized tables are tables stored in an index structure.\n", "An **index** is an optional structure, associated with a table or ...

Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, use structured tables to store data, and support various types of indexes, such as primary, secondary, unique, composite, and full-text.

"Oracle has done a great job in terms of things like PL SQL injection flaws—they've almost been hunted to extinction. But they seem to be led by what the security research part of the industry ...