IOT Secondary Indexes – The Logical ROWID Guess Component Part I (Lucky)

As discussed previously, an index entry within a Secondary Index on an Index Organized Table (IOT) basically consists of the indexed column(s) and the Logical Rowid, the PK column(s) and a “guess” to the physical block in the IOT containing the corresponding row. Let’s discuss this “guess” component in a bit more detail. When the Secondary [...]