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title: "What is an Oracle index?"  
description: "What is an Oracle index?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
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# What is an Oracle index?

An index is an optional structure associated with a table to have direct access to rows, which can be created to increase the performance of data retrieval. Index can be created on one or more columns of a table.

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### Answer by Abhishek Singh

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### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

An index is an optional structure associated with a table to have direct access to rows, which can be created to increase the performance of data retrieval. Index can be created on one or more columns of a table.


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