Ich mache es mir immer leichter mit meinen Blog-Einträgen: diesmal beschränke ich mich auf einen Link zu einem Artikel von Frits Hoogland und zitiere dann einfach die dort gelieferte Zusammenfassung:
Changes in the database are synchronised by system change numbers, also known as SCNs. SCNs are the way Oracle serialises changes to data. However, this post shows that the Oracle engine tries to maximise the number of changes inside a SCN, and as such a SCN is not an highly granular serialisation mechanism. This is not a problem, since Oracle’s transactional protection mechanisms (like TX and TM locks) do work alongside SCNs to make sure no conflicting changes can happen at the same time. The changes itself do just read and pick the current global SCN from the instance, a commit of these changes does increase the global SCN, but as little as possible. You might find multiple changes in the same SCN, and you might even find commits with the same SCNs.
Sehr kompakt und präzise. Merken werde ich mir in erster Linie, dass der Artikel erklärt, warum mehrere Commits die gleiche SCN beinhalten können.