Creating a CONTEXT Index

The CONTEXT index type is well suited for indexing large coherent documents in formats such as Microsoft Word, HTML, or plain text. With a CONTEXT index, you can also customize your index in a variety of ways. The documents must be loaded in a text table.

This section contains these topics:

• CONTEXT Index and DML

• Default CONTEXT Index Example

• Incrementally Creating an Index with ALTER INDEX and CREATE INDEX

• Creating a CONTEXT Index Incrementally with POPULATE_PENDING

• Custom CONTEXT Index Example: Indexing HTML Documents

• CONTEXT Index Example: Query Processing with FILTER BY and ORDER BY