It has to do with the organization and storage structure. An IOT is
just that, "index-organized". A heap table is modeled like a heap. A
pile of storage is allocted and used. Then, another pile of storage is
added to the "heap". It's named after the type of data structure that
used to store the data.
-Mark
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 09:08, Naveen Nahata wrote:
> What's a heap table? I can understand that it is the general table (not the
> IOT), but why the term 'heap table'?
>
> Regards,
> Naveen
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> >Is there a way to determine when an index table was
> >last updated?.=0D
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> The answer is the same as with heap tables.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole
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