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In this chapter we cover topics concerning the physical organisation of an Oracle database. Indexes and clusters are an important means of improving retrieval operations on a database. In the section on storage structures we see how Oracle stores data on the disk (or other physical device). We will see however that a trade-off between effective storage utilisation and processing speed has to be made,. and like much of Oracle this area is tuneable.
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Sikora, Z.M. (1997). Indexes and Storage Structure. In: Oracle Database Principles. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14693-2_11
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