Curiousity, use of ITL slots, ... Henry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edgar Chupit Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:22 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: dump reading Thank you for the link and now the final question: why does somebody = needs to read block dump? All I can think of is when you have block corruption = and cannot recover using BLOCKRECOVER feature of RMAN. Maybe people from the list can provide real cases where they needed to read block/heap dump = and their knowledge helped them? On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:30:23 +0100 (CET), Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Google gives some links, e.g. >=20 > http://www.fors.com/velpuri2/Oracle%20block%20structure/Blockdump%20-% > 208.x%20Data%20Segment >=20 > Regards, Carel-Jan >=20 > =3D=3D=3D > If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) = =3D=3D=3D >=20 >=20 > > Was this seminars based only on internal documentation or there is=20 > > some "official" sources of information publicly available? > > >=20 >=20 --=20 Edgar -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l