The following articles about the internal workings of Oracle were researched using the Block Viewer for Oracle. I hope you will find these articles to be useful in your work as a professional database administrator or application developer. Of course, these are placed here primarily to help promote our Block Viewer for Oracle product, but I am sure much can be learned from reading the articles alone. It is hoped that this will be the start of a forum that will blossom into a wide range of questions and answers that can best be found by directly viewing the data as Oracle stores it on disk.

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Enjoy,

Scott