Re: Block architecture

From: Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:42:09 GMT
Message-ID: <RCjt9.760$g42.52504893@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Rem's wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm sorry for my english cause i'm french .. :-)
> I'm searching (very quickly :-) ) some explications about the oracle's
> blocks.
> In fact, i need to know the different part of an oracle Block (diferent
> header,etc..) and their size..
> I'm searching a picture of something like this with all this things(blocks
> and theirs differents constituting parts)
> Could you please help me ?
> Sorry again for my english ,i' hope you will understand me..
> Thans.
>
>
>

If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, here's a slide presentation on the layout of data blocks in Oracle 8i:

http://www.quest.com/presentations/A%20Close%20Look%20at%20Block%20Internals.pdf

I found this one by typing "oracle block layout" in Google. I'm sure there are others, since it returned about 17,400 hits. Received on Tue Oct 22 2002 - 16:42:09 CDT