Why the block size is multiple of 2?

Hi all

Sorry if I am at the base, I question why the Oracle block size is a multiple of 2?

Rgds,
Lherault

Oracle is a software written to run on binary computers. Everything is built in the end between the lines, Word and double word boundries.

Early block IO sizes have been built on the collections of sectors of 512 bytes then you end up with 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 blocks IO sizes. Corresponding to the Oracle block size to the size of the OS IO seems logical.

It has been possible to set Oracle block size to be 5K and 10K. I do not recommend it, but I've seen on older versions of Oracle. I don't know if technically you can always do.

HTH - Mark D Powell.

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