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

Steve (as usual) nailed it. As for the operation of the fix if you decide you need it I have some ideas. If you set up the destination table for the chained rows to be one row per block, then the difference between used blocks in and count(*) of the destination table is a ceiling on the number of chained rows. (It could overstate the number of chained rows if one or more chained rows take up more than 2 blocks. So if you have 1000 rows in the "chained row" destination table and 1000 used blocks they were all migrated. IF 1001 then you know one was chained, but IF 1002 you aren't sure whether it was two chained rows or one multi-chained row from just the count(*) and the used block data.  

But since you're trying to see if there are enough migrated rows to bother fixing, that ceiling number subtracted from the count should let you know.
And I think you can identify the chained rows from the destination table as the ones that throw a continued row if you select the last column there. If there are enough total rows to bother differentiating between chained and migrated in your fix, you could use that information to skip the deletion/reinsertion of the chained rows and then use the destination table as the driver of the delete and reinsertion of the migrated rows. (Simply delete the rows identifed as truly chained in the destination table, leaving only the previously migrated rows there.)  

Regards,  

mwf

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

Hi Jay,

You can tell the difference between row migration and chaining by listing the chained rows with ANALYZE table LIST CHAINED ROWS and then fetching the first column from each "chained row" in a single query. The count of continued row fetches will be incremented for every migrated row, but not for most chained rows (unless the first cut point happens to fall with the first column, which should be rare).

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Chained vs. migrated rows - Any easy way to tell the difference? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:27:51 -0400
From: <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com>
To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jay Miller
>
>

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