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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ciro Fiorillo
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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V$SORT_SEGMENT

This view displays information about every sort segment in a given instance.

Fields

The most relevant view fields are as follows:

  • TABLESPACE_NAME: The name of the tablespace
  • CURRENT_USERS: The active users of the segment
  • TOTAL_BLOCKS: The total number of blocks in the segment
  • USED_BLOCKS: The number of blocks in the segment allocated to active sorts
  • FREE_BLOCKS: The number of blocks in the segment not allocated to any sort
  • MAX_BLOCKS: The maximum number of blocks ever used
  • MAX_USED_BLOCKS: The maximum number of blocks used by all sorts
  • MAX_SORT_BLOCKS: The maximum number of blocks used by an individual sort
  • EXTENT_SIZE: The extent size
  • TOTAL_EXTENTS: The total number of extents in the segment
  • USED_EXTENTS: The extents allocated to active sorts ...
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