After you specify the organizing key or keys for a table, records are inserted into the CBT as they would be for a non-CBT table. When you run the GROOM TABLE command, IBM® Netezza® reorganizes the records that are based on the specified keys.
The GROOM TABLE command processes and reorganizes the table records in each data slice in a series of steps. Users can do tasks such as SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and INSERT operations while the online data grooming is taking place. The SELECT operations run in parallel with the groom operations; the INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations run serially between the groom steps. For CBTs, the groom steps are slightly longer than for non-CBT tables, so INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations might pend for a longer time until the current step completes.