• Oracle - SQLServer

    Oracle IOTs against SQL Server Clustered Indexes

    I’m itching to dig more into the SQL Server 2016 optimizer enhancements, but I’m going to complete my comparison of indices between the two platforms before I get myself into further trouble with my favorite area of database technology. <–This is sooo me. Index Organized Tables Index Organized Tables, (IOT) are just another variation of a primary b-tree index, but unlike a standard table with an index simply enforcing uniqueness, the index IS the table.  The data is arranged in order to improve performance and in a clustered primary key state. This is the closest to a clustered index in SQL…