Creating a clustered-index in Oracle using an IOT? Confusion

Question

I\'m having a little trouble understanding how to use an IOT as a clustered index in oracle. Say I have a table order(order_id,part_id,customer_id,order_date), and I want to cre

Answer 1

Quote from Oracle's Concepts Guide

"... In an index-organized table, rows are stored in an index defined on the primary key for the table. Each index entry in the B-tree also stores the non-key column values. Thus, the index is the data, and the data is the index."

Suppose we have an ORDER table as described in your question.

-- create table ORDER_, with test data
-- table name with trailing underscore avoids ORA-00903: invalid table name
create table order_
as
select 
  level * 10000 + trunc( dbms_random.value * 100 ) order_id
, trunc( dbms_random.value * 100000 )              part_id
, dbms_random.string( 'x', 10 )                    customer_id
, trunc( sysdate + level * 10 )                    order_date
from dual connect by level <= 10 ;

Test data

SQL> select * from order_ ;
ORDER_ID  PART_ID  CUSTOMER_ID  ORDER_DATE  
10069     74711    KBGHAHWTL8   27-MAR-18   
20034     99571    7VUNFJER44   06-APR-18   
30038     64160    ORXP2RRA3K   16-APR-18   
40005     81247    B9N43NSVQ7   26-APR-18   
50019     90889    8H5G12D82E   06-MAY-18   
60017     34107    9O4OSETJ4H   16-MAY-18   
70078     53959    77MUCKJW82   26-MAY-18   
80015     9496     U5J6Z85KXR   05-JUN-18   
90081     88450    2LEUPZGFOS   15-JUN-18   
100031    38487    NX4BHBF3TN   25-JUN-18  

If you now just create an IOT (index organized table), it will be empty.

-- your original code
CREATE TABLE clust_order(
    order_id number,
    part_id number,
    CONSTRAINT part_pk PRIMARY KEY (part_id)
)ORGANIZATION INDEX;

Table CLUST_ORDER created.

SQL> select * from clust_order ;

no rows selected

What you could do instead, is: create the IOT by SELECTing from the original table (see also: Parallelizing Index-Organized Table Creation here).

create table clust_order 
( 
  part_id constraint part_pk primary key
, order_id 
) 
organization index
parallel
as
select 
  part_id
, order_id 
from order_;

The resulting IOT contains ...

SQL> select * from clust_order;
PART_ID  ORDER_ID  
9496     80015     
34107    60017     
38487    100031    
53959    70078     
64160    30038     
74711    10069     
81247    40005     
88450    90081     
90889    50019     
99571    20034 

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