The best LIO there is! Other than not doing one at all.... :-) -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:57 AM To: Ric Van Dyke; John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; JSweetser@xxxxxxxx; ecandrietta@xxxxxxxxx; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Doubt related to ROWID Slightly better even than "one LIO" - with the correct configuration (and a bit of luck, sometimes) it can be a "consistent get - examination", which is an LIO that requires only a single latch, and accesses the buffer while holding the latch rather than having to go through the whole pin cycle. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all-postings Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011) http://www.apress.com/9781430239543 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ric Van Dyke" <ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <JSweetser@xxxxxxxx>; <ecandrietta@xxxxxxxxx>; "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:48 PM Subject: RE: Doubt related to ROWID They can rock, with a hash cluster you can get a row back with only one LIO, as far as I know it's the only way to get a single row with a single LIO. =================== Ric Van Dyke Education Director Hotsos Enterprises LTD. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l