Re: What's the meaning of ROWID?

From: A.E.Vervaeke <alanv_at_opustel.com>
Date: 1998/03/02
Message-ID: <6def4s$h85@news9.noc.netcom.net>#1/1

ROWID is a hexadecimal value that equates to an identifier of the physical datafile, the block in the datafile, and the location within the block of that particular record in that particular table. Every single row in every table has a ROWID.

Alan
P.S. Don't you have ANY Oracle books ???

Jimmy wrote in message <34FB18DE.4D49_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk>...
>Hello all,
>
> Could anyone tells me what is the meaning of rowid? Is rowid unique
>with each record in a table? Is the lastest record with the largest
>rowid in a table?
>
>Thanks,
>Jimmy
Received on Mon Mar 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST