Strategy for Creating Oracle Text Indexes (Doc ID 150453.1)

Last updated on JULY 24, 2024

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Purpose

Purpose of this note is to explain how to manage and control Oracle Text index of CONTEXT indextype creation process, storage preference and space usage.
There are Oracle Text indexes of other indextypes (CTXCAT, CTXRULE, CTXXPATH) for which this information may not be applicable.

Scope

Note is intended for Oracle DBAs that want to control how and where Text index is created, and to find out what is the size of Text index.
This document does NOT deal with every aspect of a Text index, it concentrates on the Text index creation process, Storage preference and space usage.
For more information about Datastore Types, Filter Types, Lexer Types, Wordlist Type, Section Group Types and Stoplists, you should check:

• Text Application Developer's Guide
• Text Reference

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