Creating Clusters - Oracle 10g

To create a cluster in your schema, you must have the CREATE CLUSTER system privilege and a quota for the tablespace intended to contain the cluster or the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege.

To create a cluster in another user's schema you must have the CREATE ANY CLUSTER system privilege, and the owner must have a quota for the tablespace intended to contain the cluster or the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege. You create a cluster using the CREATE CLUSTER statement. The following statement creates a cluster named emp_dept, which stores the emp and dept tables, clustered by the deptno column:

CREATE CLUSTER emp _dept (deptno NUMBER(3)) PCTUSED 80 PCTFREE 5 SIZE 600 TABLESPACE users STORAGE (INITIAL 200K NEXT 300K MINEXTENTS 2 MAXEXTENTS 20 PCTINCREASE 33);

If no INDEX keyword is specified, as is true in this example, an index cluster is created by default. You can also create a HASH cluster, when hash parameters (HASHKEYS, HASH IS, or SINGLE TABLE HASHKEYS) are specified.

Creating Clustered Tables

To create a table in a cluster, you must have either the CREATE TABLE or CREATE ANY TABLE system privilege. You do not need a tablespace quota or the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege to create a table in a cluster. You create a table in a cluster using the CREATE TABLE statement with the CLUSTER clause. The emp and dept tables can be created in the emp _dept cluster using the following statements:

CREATE TABLE emp ( empno NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY, ename VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL, . . . deptno NUMBER(3) REFERENCES dept) CLUSTER emp_dept (deptno); CREATE TABLE dept ( deptno NUMBER(3) PRIMARY KEY, . . . ) CLUSTER emp_dept (deptno);

Creating Cluster Indexes
To create a cluster index, one of the following conditions must be true:

• Your schema contains the cluster.
• You have the CREATE ANY INDEX system privilege.

In either case, you must also have either a quota for the tablespace intended to contain the cluster index, or the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege. A cluster index must be created before any rows can be inserted into any clustered table. The following statement creates a cluster index for the emp _dept cluster:

CREATE INDEX emp_dept_index ON CLUSTER emp_dept TABLESPACE users STORAGE (INITIAL 50K NEXT 50K MINEXTENTS 2 MAXEXTENTS 10 PCTINCREASE 33) PCTFREE 5;

The cluster index clause (ON CLUSTER) identifies the cluster, emp_dept, for which the cluster index is being created. The statement also explicitly specifies several storage settings for the cluster and cluster index.