Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning
by Richmond Shee, Kirtikumar Deshpande, K Gopalakrishnan
Data Block Dump
A data block dump shows detailed information of the contents of the block for the given datafile number and the block number. It shows you exactly how the data is stored internally. Depending on whether it is a table or index segment, the data block will list the contents of rows or index keys. The segment header block dump will list the extent map information. The undo header block dump will list the free extent pool in the undo segments. You may need to dump the contents of the data block when investigating block corruptions. In addition, complex recovery situations also warrant block dumps to check the SCN of the block.
Syntax
The following methods dump the contents of the interested data blocks to the trace file in the UDUMP ...
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