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The figure shows how an IOT (index-organized table) storage table for a nested table works. The storage table has two columns:

NESTED_TABLE_ID Values

The NESTED_TABLE_ID column identifies the rows in the parent table to which the nested table's rows belong. In the storage table, rows associated with the same parent row are dispersed throughout the storage table, rather than being grouped.