Really?  I'm curious, because after reading up on Index-Organized
Tables, they sound actually pretty similar.

Clustered Index: an "ordering ruleset" for the data on the disk.
IOT: a method to store oracle rows in a b*Tree format instead of
the default rowid-controlled heap.

So, generically, both are ways you can control the physical order
of the data on your disk.  Is there more to it than this simplistic
explanation?  

Followup question: why not have EVERY table be an IOT in oracle?

(notwithstanding the known limitations of IOTs; no longs, no clustering)

Boss

> 
> IOT and clustered indexes are not comparable to each other.
> 
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> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:44 PM
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> 
> 
> My workplace is going in the same direction as David Mitchell's.  Our
> OLTP systems are Oracle, basically everything else is being (or being
> considered) migrated to MSSQL2000.
> 
> I am not that familiar with SQL Server, but I believe SQL2000 has
> sequences. I think MS calls it identity.  I think MS also has IOT, which
> they call clustered indexes.  MS might even have function based indexes
> with SQL2000, but not very sure.  Anyone care to comment?
> 
> Abey.
> 
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 12:44
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: Re: Oracle pricing ain't going down
> > >
> > >
> > > what is MSEE lacking in?
> >
> > <sound of can of worms opening>
> >
> > Here's a start.  MSSQLServer EE has ...
> >
> > No bitmap indexes, no partitioned indexes, no function-based indexes, 
> > no
> domain indexes, no reverse key indexes, no object tables, no before
> triggers (can be kludged, not pretty), no multiple actions per trigger
> event, no 3rd-party language support a la Oracle's JVM and pro*...
> modules, no built-in OLAP (it's a weird bolt-on), no control over extent
> size, no control over block size, no star query optimisation, no
> sequences, no synonyms, no packages, no structured exception handling in
> stored proc language (TSQL), no MINUS union operator, no multiplexing or
> mirroring of log files, no cyclical log management, no escalation-free
> locking, no index organised tables.
> >
> > (Working with both every day, do you get the feeling I've been asked 
> > this
> before? :-))
> >
> > Half of those things are available in Oracle SE One :-)
> >
> > Ciao
> > Fuzzy
> > :-)
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