Re: Question regarding read consistency in Tom Kyte's Expert 10g book

In article <20050505135352.221$ll_at_newsreader.com>, xhoster_at_gmail.com says...
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>georgejzhang_at_gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,

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>> And another question, the same example on page 20, why do we assume
>> that the table stores one row per block? What if all 4 row are stored
>> in one block?
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>From the users point of view, it wouldn't make any difference. I assume
>the one-per-block thing was to serve some pedagogical purpose in some other
>part of the chapter.

It was in order to make the "math" easier -- just for the example. "Assume a row per block, we read block 1, we read ...., we read last block"

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