Indexing Tables : Building block of performance tuning, an overview DEFINITION: An INDEX is a schema object that contains an entry for each value that appears in the indexed column(s) of the table and provides direct & fast access to rows(i.e. table records). INDEX is nothing but to create a logical relationship table (i.e. index table) where the mapping of indexed value of all the table records and ROWID is captured. Index table is totally different from normal table where latter contains the actual data but former is a logical mapping table which is mentioned above in order to quickly retrieve the table records. Index table doesn’t contain any actual data. Index table can be read or written only by Oracle. DB users can’t understand/ or view the index table since it is in oracle readable format. Index can be created on a single column or on a combination of multiple columns. More than one index table can be created for a single data table. Index is mainly used to improve the p