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Oracle - What is Data
Block? - Feb 23, 2010 at 11:00 PM by Rajmeet
Ghai
What is Data Block?
Data block is the optimum level of storage. Also known as pages,
each data block corresponds to a specific number of bytes. Adjacent
data blocks form an extent.
Oracle - What
is Data Block? - April 10, 2009
at 11:00 AM
What is Data Block?
- Data blocks are also called logical blocks, Oracle blocks, or
pages.
- At the finest level of granularity, Oracle stores data in data
blocks.
- A data block corresponds to a specific number of bytes of
physical database space on disk.
Also read
An extent is stored some specific information. This information
is stored using specific number of adjoining data blocks. A
collection of extent is called as a segment stored in the same
tablespace.............
A data block is the smallest unit of logical storage for a
database object. As objects grow they take chunks of additional
storage that are composed of contiguous data blocks..............
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