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Spendius wrote:
> Hello,
> In which measure Oracle carries out changes to its block
> structure with new versions ? Is there any *real* modifications
> in this regard from a version to the next one ?
>
> Thank you.
> Spendius
The block format was revised in 8.0 to allow for partitioning. It was revised again in 10g to allow for bigfile tablespaces. Such revisions are usually documented in the release notes.
-- Sybrand Bakker Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Thu Jul 20 2006 - 06:29:38 CDT