Tuesday 16 May 2017

Rowid and Rownum in oracle



  ROW ID

1.Physical address of the rows.

2.Rowid is permanent

3.Rowid is 16-bit hexadecimal

4.Rowid gives address of rows or records

5. Rowid is automatically generated unique id of a row and it

is generated at the time of insertion of row.

6. ROWID is the fastest means of accessing data.

7. They are unique identifiers for the any row in a table

ROWNUM:

1. Rownum is the sequential number, allocated to each returned row

during query execution.

2. Rownum is temporary.

3.Rownum is numeric

4.Rownum gives count of records

5. Rownum is an dynamic value automatically

retrieved along with select statement output.

6. It represents the sequential order in which Oracle has retrieved the row