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10
SQL Statements for Indexing Spatial Data
This chapter describes the SQL statements used when working with the spatial
object data type. The statements are listed in Table 10–1.
Table 10–1 Spatial Index Creation and Usage Statements
Statement Description
ALTER INDEX Alters specific parameters for a spatial index.
ALTER INDEX REBUILD Rebuilds a spatial index or a specified partition of a partitioned
index.
ALTER INDEX RENAME
TO
Changes the name of a spatial index or a partition of a spatial
index.
CREATE INDEX Creates a spatial index on a column of type SDO_GEOMETRY.
DROP INDEX Deletes a spatial index.
This chapter focuses on using these SQL statements with spatial indexes. For
complete reference information about any statement, see Oracle Database SQL
Reference.
Bold italic text is often used in the Keywords and Parameters sections in this
chapter to identify a grouping of keywords, followed by specific keywords in the
group. For example, INDEX_PARAMS identifies the start of a group of
index-related keywords.
SQL Statements for Indexing Spatial Data 10-1