Rick_Cale_at_teamhealth.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have records that have same key fields(PK was disabled) but other fields
> are different. Is there a way to determine which record was inserted in
> last.
> I do not think rowid would guarantee it.
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
No if you have no timestamp. I would tend to say that if :
a) no delete is ever performed
b) the number of freelists is one
then the rowid WITHIN ONE EXTENT would probably be significant, and I
don't see any reason why extents would not be filled in the order in
which they appear in DBA_EXTENTS, but there is no absolute certainty.
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