Syntax options: DETECTED ASYNC PREFETCH IS ENABLED DETECTED ASYNC PREFETCH IS DISABLED Specifies whether or not Oracle Rdb reduces the amount of time that a process waits for pages to be read from disk. By using heuristics, detected asynchronous prefetch determines if an I/O pattern is sequential in behavior even if sequential I/O is not actually executing at the time. For example, when a LIST OF BYTE VARYING column is fetched, the heuristics detect that the pages being fetched are sequential and asynchronously fetches pages further in the sequence. This avoids wait times when the page is really needed. Detected asynchronous prefetch is enabled by default.