US Patent 11182368 Indexing data in a table based on data usage statistics

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for ordering rows of a table based on access statistics. The method includes one or more processors adding a respective tracking mechanism to the attribute of each respective instance of the set of rows of the table of the database. The method further includes adding a tracking mechanism to the respective instances of the set of rows. The method further includes gathering access data of the respective tracking mechanism of the attribute of each respective instance of the set of rows. The method further includes determining each respective instance of an attribute value that corresponds to the access data of the respective tracking mechanism of each respective instance of the set of rows. The method further includes ordering each respective instance of the set of rows of the table based at least in part on the respective instances of the attribute values.