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why arent all nulls allowed in a b-tree index?

OracleGuy777Nov 15 2009 — edited Nov 15 2009
if we were to store all the nulls at the beginning (and put the rowid of the index in there as well so each entry remains unique), and say we put all the null entries in the left-most blocks of the index, then we could easily search for all nulls in the table. Why doesn't Oracle allow this?

thanks
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