Types of B-tree indexes(Cluster Indexes) in Oracle11g
B-Tree cluster indexes: *This indexes(indexed cluster) is a table cluster that uses an index to locate data. *The cluster index is a B-tree index on the cluster key ,It must be created before any rows can be instered into clustered tables * A cluster is a group tables that share the same data blocks i.e all the tables are physically stored together Create cluster: Let us we can assume to create cluster based on the cluster key department_id SQL> create cluster emp_dept (department_id number(4)); Cluster created. Then create index on it SQL> create index idx_emp_dept on cluster emp_dept; Index created. Then create table emp and dept SQL> create table emp (department_id number(4), 2 name varchar2(20), 3 empno number(5), 4 sal number(10,2)) 5 cluster emp_dept (department_id); Table created. SQL> insert into emp values(10,'ram',123,'1500'); 1 row created. SQL> insert into emp values(20,'sam...