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What is Rollback Segment ?

A Database contains one or more Rollback Segments to temporarily store "undo" information.




  
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January 28, 2008 15:22:19   #1  
taraldesai Member Since: January 2007   Contribution: 28    

RE: What is Rollback Segment ?
It stores your uncommited temporart data. ex. If you do any insert/update/delete and you won't commit it is written in rollback segment.
 
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