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What is a clustered index?
For a clustered index DB2 maintains rows in the same sequence as the columns in the index for as long as there is free space. DB2 can then process that table in that order efficiently.


  
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September 02, 2006 05:54:46   #1  
Amol        

RE: What is a clustered index?
Partitioned table is clustered by clustering index
 
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February 07, 2007 00:03:11   #2  
burelamanohar Member Since: January 2007   Contribution: 1    

RE: What is a clustered index?
Clustered index is unique for any given table and we can have only one clustered index on a table. The leaf level of a clustered index is the actual data and the data is resorted in case of clustered index
 
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Latest Answer : Clustered index is unique for any given table and we can have only one clustered index on a table. The leaf level of a clustered index is the actual data and the data is resorted in case of clustered index ...

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If there is an index on the attributes tested an IN is more efficient since DB2 uses the index for the IN. (IN for index is the mnemonic).  
Latest Answer : hi  vipin sharma,IN subselects  can also uesd in corelated sub queries.IN subselects  needs  to specify  the vlues u want to search.EXISTS    subselects  doesn't need any to specify values . it searches ...

They are the opposite of root pages. Leaf pages are the lowest level index pages - the pages that contain index entries and information to the corresponding table rows.  
Latest Answer : Leaf pages are used in context of indexes and contain data. ...

The opposite of a leaf page; it is the highest level index page. An index can contain only the one root page; all other index pages are associated to the root.  

Latest Answer : u can display index in DB2 using syscat.sysindexes & syscat.syskeys system tablesthe common linking columns in the tables being tbname (table name) and tbcreator. ...

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