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Common Questions on Space/Storage Specifics of Compressed Table (Doc ID 1508847.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 06, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

 Scripts/Snippets for Common questions on space/storage specifics of compressed table.

Primary purpose is to provide instrumentation improvements (that is script, tools to diagnose, answers these sort of questions).

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In this Document
Purpose
Details
 Q1: How to identify fragmentation in compressed table?
 Q2: How to identify how many rows are compressed?
 Q3: How to identify the used blocks and how many rows are in them?
 Q4: How to identify the empty blocks in a compressed table? 
 Q5: How to identify the High Water Mark? 
 Q6: How to identify the amount of free space in blocks in a compressed table?
 Q7: How to identify the chained and migrated rows?
 Q8: How to identify if the table was switched from compress to nocompress?
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