14. Handling Indexes

This chapter explains the procedures for handling indexes.

It contains the following sections:

Organization of this chapter
14.1 Improving index storage efficiency (index reorganization)
14.2 Defining an index for a table that contains data
14.3 Deleting an index
14.4 Creating a definition SQL from an existing index
14.5 Reducing the number of index page splits (unbalanced index split)
14.6 Error handling during batch index creation
14.7 Delayed batch creation of a plug-in index