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Re: Getting the first row from a select

From: Randall <aslan-zzz_at_pcmagic.net>
Date: 1998/10/06
Message-ID: <361A42DF.E00E7410@pcmagic.net>#1/1

> 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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Randall

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