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Re: undo and insert

From: Akshay Kumar <akshay349_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:54:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DB1A3.20031226105426@fatcity.com>


What is ITL ?
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>
> Just the previous version of the changed columns,
> plus an overhead of about 80 bytes which relates
> to ITLs, linked lists, operation descriptions etc.
>
> Bear in mind that undo relating to indexes is not
> the same as undo relating to tables, though. An
> update to an indexed column results in one index
> entry being deleted (so the whole index entry
> is coped to the undo) and another index entry
> being inserted (which also means the whole (new)
> index entry being copied to the undo).
>
> There is a statistic relating to undo size in v$sysstat/v$sesstat
> in the most recent versions of Oracle.
>
> While a transaction is active, you can track it in v$transaction,
> and there are two columns in that view giving you information
> about the undo - used_urec (undo records created) and used_ublk
> (undo block used).
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
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> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:44 PM
>
>
> > I have a related question : What about update? In rollback segment :
> > Will it store the whole row for before image or just the changed column
> > and rowid. Is there a way to get the size of the rollback from some
> > where in the database. or v$ views. Like we can get an idea about redo
> > size from redo log files generated. Thank you
> >
> >
>
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> Author: Jonathan Lewis
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