Database Buffer Blocks

How many type of database buffer blocks are available? What are they?

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sharmme

  • Feb 17th, 2010
 

Following are the types of Buffer blocks available.

Pinned - Marked not to be released as per LRU algorithm. These are marked as required for further writes/changes/reads by transactions.
Dirty - Changed since recent fetch from Datafile(s).
Clean/Free - Have been marked as aged out. So, can be used for other fetches.
Unused - Never used as in case of fresh instance start.

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