What is a Redo Log ?

The set of Redo Log files for a database is collectively known as the database's redo log.

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rajat dey

  • Feb 21st, 2006
 

hi,It is a part of oracle physical structure of the database which is recording all the commited and uncommited transaction of the database and monitering by backgruond process called LGRWRregrdsrajat dey

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sampath kumar

  • May 17th, 2006
 

red log file store the changes in the data file.it mainly used for recovery purpose..

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Oracle maintains logs of all transactions against the databse. These transactions are recorded in files called Online Redo log files.

These logs are used to recover the database's transaction in their proper order in the evnt of database crash. The redo log information is stored in Redo log file which is external to the datafiles

Each database have two or more online redo log files. oracle writes tedo log file in cyclic order after the first log is filled , it writes to the second log files, until that one is filled. whn all of the online redo log file have been filled it move to the first online redo log file and start overwriting the transaction record

Note : if the Databse is in ARCHIVE log mode then database will make the copy of the redo log file before overwriting the contents of the log file..
These ARCHIEVED redo log file can then be used to recover any part of the database to any point of time.

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