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Edward Stanglers next post in the not running catpatch.sql series
November 30th, 2004 by Pete
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I have just seen Ed's next post in this series of issues / problems encountered if you do not run the full upgrade scripts and catpatch.sql. This time he talks about missing a COMPRESSION column in DBA_TABLES.
This was as Ed points out an exciting feature that allows faster full table scans by eliminating redundant column data. This feature was missing from 9.2.0.1 dictionary views but fixed in 9.2.0.3 only if catpatch.sql is run. Read Edwards comments on the dangers of not running catpatch.sql.
