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Re: db block size, too big wasting buffer?

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:42:35 +1000
Message-ID: <3d190f6f$0$28008$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>


In article <3D18ACAA.7050308_at_europe.com>, you said (and I quote):
>
> when we read a row from a segment do we read the whole block which that
> row is located into buffer cache??
>

Yes you do. ALL I/O for data and indexes in Oracle is done using the block size. ALL of it.
How is that relevant here?

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Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Tue Jun 25 2002 - 19:42:35 CDT

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