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CREATE PROCEDURE
This example shows how to create an inactive word index with the description field specified:
Notes • The first index you create on a table should be the most fundamental key of the table. This
index (the first one created on a table) cannot be dropped except by dropping the table.
• An index slows performance of INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE operations.
• Use PROUTIL to activate inactive indexes.
• Use CREATE INDEX without the PRO_ACTIVE {’N’|’n’} attribute to create active
indexes. Active indexes can only be created against an online database if the following
conditions are met:
– You run CREATE INDEX immediately after creating a table.
– The index is created on the newly created table.
– Both the CREATE TABLE and CREATE INDEX are performed within the same
transaction (that is, no commit is performed after CREATE TABLE is run).
Authorization
Must have DBA privilege or INDEX privilege on the table.
Related statements
CREATE PROCEDURE
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX custindex ON customer (cust_num);
CREATE PRO_WORD INDEX CommentsWordIdx
on pub.customer
PRO_DESCRIPTION ’Word index on comments field’
PRO_ACTIVE ’n’;
ALTER TABLE, CREATE TABLE, DROP INDEX
Creates a stored procedure. Stored procedures contain a Java code snippet that is processed into
a Java class definition and stored in the database in text and compiled form. SQL applications
invoke stored procedures through the SQL CALL statement or the procedure-calling mechanisms
of ODBC and JDBC.
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