Fixed block header

The fixed block header will be exactly the same size for every block of a table, regardless of the Oracle blocksize. The size of the fixed block header will be:

57 + (23 × INITRANS)

where INITRANS is the value specified for the INITRANS parameter in the CREATE TABLE statement when the table is created (the default value is 1).

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