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If you are keen and assiduous Oracle newbie K2Tor Edu is an easy to use tool that helps you to dig up answers on your questions. The tool is developed to not just give you, it is developed to show you answers on such questions as: what structure a data block has, how many service bytes a block has and how many of them left for your actual data, how oracle migrates a row and how it chains a row or a column, why oracle is unable to handle more then certain number of modification requests to the same block, how a cluster is stored, what information segment header keeps, etc.

K2Tor Edu is a standalone application written in C++ and uses Standard Template Library (STL), which currently allows it to be run on any of Linux or Windows platforms and supports Oracle 9i, 10g data files. The tool has simple command line interface and intuitive set of commands. It allows you to view oracle data files internals in structured and unstructured forms also providing some helpful functions to work with blocks and their structures. It does dirty block reads and can work either with a datafile(s) that is currently in use by an Oracle service or with an “offline” datafile(s).

The tool is designed to be a good piece of support for you while exploring the world of Oracle database

Want to dump an oracle data block, number of blocks or even a piece of datafile in hexadecimal format for reviewing, analyzing or interpreting;
Want to see the types of blocks a datafile consist of;
Want to know physical structure of a block in an Oracle datafile (transaction, header, service blocks)
Want to get a list of corrupted blocks;
Want to know where and how your data is stored;
Want to see what data is corrupted;
Want to convert data between “human used to” and Oracle internal formats.