I havent confirmed this with a test case, but here it is: Imagine again a long list, ordered. It covers 10 pages. On 2 of the pages, you have 2 empty lines (slots). You have the ability to rewrite a single page, without touching the other pages. You are going to basically use (or re-use) the slots when a given entry has to go AFTER the last entry of the previous page AND BEFORE the first entry of the next page. Anywhere within that page, Oracle will re-arrange it and insert the "item". I hope my example was some-what helpfull. I can try harder if needed :) On Apr 8, 2005 4:05 PM, Martic Zoran <zoran_martic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christo, > > I understand the general mechanism about indexes and > tables. > What is left is: > > Remember i said the ordering was index key, > > rowid. > How is that working? To say that you have 10 blocks > where there are 2 slots left in each. > When and how is that going to be reused exactly? > Which algorithm is that? Some ORacle specific? > > That is what I am searching if anybody knows. > > I did not get that from your answer, but it is good > point. Where did you find out it depends on speific > rowid when the value is the same? Probably some > doc/note? > > Regards, > Zoran > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Christo Kutrovsky Database/System Administrator The Pythian Group -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l