RE: Oracle vs. DB2 UDB

I don't know anything about DB2, but you can only co-locate to satisfy one sort criteria/index. You can do this manually in Oracle by reorganizing a table and ordering it to match a given index (and thereby greatly increase the clustering factor for *that* index, but possibly blowing it for the others), or you can use Oracle's IOTs (index organized tables) if appropriate - that's what SQL server does if I understand correctly. Been a while since I worked on SQL server, but IIRC, the default for every table is for it to be index organized according to it's primary key, rather than just a heap like the default in Oracle.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net  

We had a guy in here recently who worked extensively with both DB2 and Oracle. He insisted that the co-location features of DB2 are far better than the those in oracle(all oracle has is the clustering factor).  

DB2 provices features to order data on insert and its measure of co-location is supposedly far more sophisticated than Oracle's. He insisted that this gave DB2 an edge.  

Co-location just means ordering data to get a good clustering factor. Anyone familiar with DB2's co-location tools?  

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