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What is a Segment ?
A segment is a set of extents allocated for a certain logical structure.
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What is an Extent ?
An Extent is a specific number of contiguous data blocks, obtained in a single allocation, and used to store a specific type of information.
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What is Data Block ?
ORACLE database's data is stored in data blocks. One data block corresponds to a specific number of bytes of physical database space on disk.