Oracle Database - Transaction table - Interested transaction list (ITL)

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The database uses a transaction table, also called an interested transaction list (ITL), to determine if a transaction was uncommitted when the database began modifying the block.

The block header of every segment block contains a transaction table.

Entries in the transaction table describe which transactions have rows locked and which rows in the block contain committed and uncommitted changes.

The transaction table points to the undo segment, which provides information about the timing of changes made to the database.

In a sense, the block header contains a recent history of transactions that affected each row in the block.

The INITRANS parameter of the CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements controls the amount of transaction history that is kept.





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