Re: Chained vs. migrated rows - Any easy way to tell the difference?

btw if you do want to count column sizes you want VSIZE, not LENGTH (and watch out for nulls). I don't know how reliable any size calculation like this will be though.

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From: Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com
Date: 28/10/08 19:27
>
> We have two databases that are showing very high number of/ table
> fetch continued row/ in v$sysstat each day and before doing a move or
> export/import or copying the rows off and reinserting them I was
> hoping to find out if I'd really gain anything.
>
> All I found in the Oracle docs was the suggestion to assume they're
> migrated and if the fix doesn't work then that means they were really
> chained ( Note:122020.1).
>
> I'm considering using length() on all the columns and adding them
> together to find any rows that wouldn’t fit in a block but was
> wondering if there was an easier way. Besides, one of the tables
> (third party app) has a long raw column so there's no easy way to get
> the column length there.
>

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