Creating an Index Organized Table (IOT) using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS)

Creating an Index Organized Table (IOT) using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS)

This tip originates from a response posted by an Oracle support professional, Giribabu Bhamidipati, in the PL/SQL forum on Metalink.

This script has been tested on Oracle 8.1.7 for a data migration. Data was taken from multiple tables and combined into a final table. We used CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) to create intermediate tables, which were joined to make a final table. Because of the final join, it was necessary to make the intermediate tables Indexed Organized Table (IOT). We used CTAS for speed.

The syntax for creating an IOT from an existing table using CTAS may be a little different from what you are used to when creating a table. The following is an example:

 CREATE TABLE iot_emp ( employee_id PRIMARY KEY, first_name, last_name ) ORGANIZATION INDEX TABLESPACE mytable AS SELECT employee_id, first_name, last_name FROM emp;

When you use CTAS to create an IOT, you do not specify the column data types.

The script above will work for a single column primary key. If you need to create a multicolumn primary key, use the following syntax:

 CREATE TABLE iot_emp ( employee_id, first_name, last_name, CONSTRANT pk_iot_emp PRIMARY KEY(employee_id, last_name) ) ORGANIZATION INDEX TABLESPACE mytable AS SELECT employee_id, first_name, last_name FROM emp;

As in the first example, you do not include the column data types. This format can also be used for a single column primary key.

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This was first published in August 2003

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