What is log switch ?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2004

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The point at which Oracle ends writing to one online redo log file and begins writing to another is
called a log switch.

Answered by: nitanjandial on: Dec 8th, 2007

log switch occurs when current redo logfile gets full and lgwr writes redo to next redo logfile.Even
we can perform log switch with the command alsobefore we execute the sql execute following
statemen...

Answered by: Mohammed Abdul Afroze on: Sep 28th, 2007

The point at which oracle ends writing from one redo log and begins writing to another is called
as a log switch.

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What is the difference between media recovery & crash recovery..?

Asked By: opk_pavan | Asked On: Feb 14th, 2006
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Answered by: hemant on: Oct 23rd, 2007

The basic diff between the media and crash recovery is that , media recovery is performed by the
user or dba with the helps of backups while the crash recovery is performed by the oracle itself
by using his sman background process.

Answered by: shabirwani on: Sep 17th, 2006

oracle never accepts the inconsistency of the database. so when oracle goes down due to power
outage or aborted manually, next time once the database base is opened it goes mainly to the
three states ...

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What is archived redo log ?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2004
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Archived redo log consists of redo log files that have archived before being reused.

Answered by: Mohammed Abdul Afroze on: Mar 25th, 2007

Answer:

The archived redo log consists of archived redo logfile copies that have archived before being
reused.

Answered by: rush on: Nov 12th, 2006

Hi, Filled groups of online redo log files stores to one or more offline destinations. These
destinations called arc...
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What is the disk migration?What isthe steps involved in diskmigration?

Asked By: shiva | Asked On: Dec 5th, 2005
1 answer

Answered by: venkat on: Feb 10th, 2006

Disk migration is noting but, migration of data from one OS dependent database to another
Dependent database. The steps involved in this are- first go to your target database and export
all your data ...

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What is mirrored on-line redo log ?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2004
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A mirrored on-line redo log consists of copies of on-line redo log files physically located on separate
disks, changes made to one member of the group are made to all members.

Answered by: nagabhushan reddy on: Jan 30th, 2006

mirrored redologfile is the same copy of redologfile,when lgwr writes in the redologfile the same
will be in the mirrored redofile.it is useful when original redo is corrupt database can recover from
mirrored redologfile.

Answered by: devesh on: Jan 20th, 2006

When your database is in archive log mode and you have to set the parameter of pfile that
archive files are going on the two seperate disk. It is called on- line Redo Log mirrored.

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What is partial backup ?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2004
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A partial backup is any operating system backup short of a full backup, taken while the database is
open or shut down.

Answered by: Lalit Vasuja on: Jan 3rd, 2006

A partial backup is an operating system backup of part of a database. The backup of an individual
tablespace's datafiles or the backup of a control file are examples of partial backups. Partial
backups are useful only when the database is in ARCHIVELOG mode.