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Avoid chain rows [message #489532]

Mon, 17 January 2011 06:18

sathik
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Hi,

There is coulmn called DATA in a table with LONG RAW datatype. we are facing more than 60% chained rows in this table because of this LONG RAW column.

It is very difficult to clean up these chained rows periodically. Since an application using this table is a business critical interms of high availability.

Hence, is there any other way in oracle to avoid chained rows permanently in future?

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Re: Avoid chain rows [message #489533 is a reply to message #489532]

Mon, 17 January 2011 06:25

Michel Cadot
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With a LONG RAW column you cannot avoid chained rows.
Too bad you did choose an obsolete datatype.

Regards
Michel

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Re: Avoid chain rows [message #489534 is a reply to message #489533]

Mon, 17 January 2011 06:28

sathik
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Thanks for your response. It was designed more than 7 years back.
Please let me know what datatype i can choose here instead LONG RAW?

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Re: Avoid chain rows [message #489539 is a reply to message #489534]

Mon, 17 January 2011 07:14

Michel Cadot
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LONG RAW are obsolete since the last century. Someone that designed such application 7 years ago was late of about 5 years.

You should use BLOB instead.

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Michel

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Re: Avoid chain rows [message #489560 is a reply to message #489539]

Mon, 17 January 2011 09:17

sathik
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Do u mean, if I convert the datatype from LONG RAW to BLOB, we can avoid the chain rows permanently in future?

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Re: Avoid chain rows [message #489566 is a reply to message #489560]

Mon, 17 January 2011 10:40

Michel Cadot
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No, you can manage them as BLOB can be stored in a separate segement (or even tablespace) and so you access this part ONLY when you need it.
On the other hand, you will likely have to change your application code.

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Michel

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