Internals of the Oracle segment header
Segment_header_block
Segment_header_block
- data block header: references information about the data block header
- table directory: references information about the tables which have rows in this block
- row directory: references information about actual rows, including an address for each row.
- free space: references information about the free space allocated for INSERT and UPDATE; actual use of free space depends on the value of
- PCTFREE row data:references information about table data and index data