Introduction Oracle provides several pseudocolumns, and ROWID is one of them. The ROWID pseudocolumn specifies the address of the underlying database record, and according to Oracle documentation, it’s the fastest way to reference a table row. As explained on Ask TOM, there are some operations that might lead to a ROWID change (e.g. partitioning or compacting tables). If that’s the case, then you should not rely on the ROWID pseudocolumn since its value iss no longer consistent. If your database never executes an operation that triggers a ROWID modification, then you should… Read More