Strategy for fragmenting indexes
When you fragment a table, the indexes that are associated with that table are fragmented implicitly, according to the distribution scheme that you use, except for the round-robin fragmentation scheme when automatic location is enabled. Indexes on tables that use the round-robin distribution scheme are not fragmented when the AUTOLOCATE configuration parameter or environment option is set to a positive integer. You can use the FRAGMENT BY clause of the CREATE INDEX statement to fragment the index on any table.
Each index of a fragmented table occupies its own tblspace with its own extents.
You can fragment the index with either of the following strategies:
- Same fragmentation strategy as the table
- Different fragmentation strategy from the table