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Impact of Large Transactions on Undo Logs
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
The resource drain caused by long-running transactions.
Deep explanation
Large transactions prevent the purge thread from reclaiming undo space, leading to 'History List Length' growth and performance degradation.
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