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> I think you are referring to ROWID, which in Oracle7 was of the form
> "block.slot.file," and in Oracle8 is an opaque identifier that can be
> decoded to provide the block, slot, and file of a row.
>
Opaque identifier? They just went from representing it in base 16
(hexidecimal) to base 52 (or some numbr around there). Doesn't everyone
know base 52? <g>
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