What can cause an Oracle ROWID to change?

Question

AFAIK ROWID in Oracle represents physical location of a record in appropriate datafile. In which cases ROWID of a record may change ?

The one known to me is UPDATE o

Answer 1

As you have said, it occurs anytime the row is physically moved on disk, such as:

• Export/import of the table
• ALTER TABLE XXXX MOVE
• ALTER TABLE XXXX SHRINK SPACE
• FLASHBACK TABLE XXXX
• Splitting a partition
• Updating a value so that it moves to a new partition
• Combining two partitions

If is in an index organized table, then an update to the primary key would give you a different ROWID as well.