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Re: Rowids are letters? I though they were numbers

From: MotoX <rat_at_tat.a-tat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:01:04 +0100
Message-ID: <900917980.1274.0.nnrp-11.c2de712e@news.demon.co.uk>


RTFM. (Oracle8). And then read the release notes (came with the software, and copied off the installation media during install).

Gene wrote in message ...
>
> I have just created a DB, after a two year break from Oracle. Lot's of
>new things going on, eh? I set the block size to 16K. Created a table
>with the first extent at 200MB. And imported 3Mil rows.
>
> The rowid's for this table look like
>
>AAAAeEAAHAAADIIAAA
>AAAAeEAAHAAADIIAAB
>AAAAeEAAHAAADIIAAC
>AAAAeEAAHAAADIIAAD
>
>I thought they should look like
>
>00000DD5.0000.0001
>00000DD5.0001.0001
>00000DD5.0002.0001
>00000DD5.0003.0001
>
>I don't care how they loo. I Question: if rowid's should look like this,
>how do I tell the file, block and row?
>
>thanks - gene
>gbc_at_slip.net
Received on Mon Jul 20 1998 - 02:01:04 CDT

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