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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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SORT_DIRECT_WRITES

Synopsis

Value: AUTO | TRUE | FALSE

Default: AUTO

Dynamic: ALTER SYSTEM, ALTER SESSION

Controls whether sort data will bypass the buffer cache to write intermediate sort results to disk. If AUTO, and the value of the sort area size is greater than 10 times the block size, memory is allocated from the sort area to do this. If TRUE, additional buffers are allocated from memory during each sort, and additional temporary segment space can be required. If FALSE, the sorts that write to disk write through the buffer cache. Obsolete with Oracle8i.

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