Full Table Scans and the Buffer Cache in 11.2 – What is Wrong with this Quote?

February 26, 2012 (Modified February 27, 2012) I found another interesting quote in the “Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook“, this time related to tables and full table scans.  This quote is found on page 170 of the book: “If we do an FTS [full table scan], database buffers are used to read all the [...]