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What is the use of Redo Log Information ?

The Information in a redo log file is used only to recover the database from a system or media failure prevents database data from being written to a database's data files.




  
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Submitted by: partho sarathi konar
 

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  Redo Log in oracle is used to store all changes made in the database. It can contain both commited and non commited data. before changed data is written in the datafile, it is recorded in the redo log. so commited data is never lost in oracle as when the user commits a transaction it is been stored in the log files. So in case of media failure the data is always preserved in the log files.

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October 01, 2006 12:19:20   #1  
partho sarathi konar        

RE: What is the use of Redo Log Information ?

Hi

Redo Log in oracle is used to store all changes made in the database. It can contain both commited and non commited data. before changed data is written in the datafile it is recorded in the redo log. so commited data is never lost in oracle as when the user commits a transaction it is been stored in the log files. So in case of media failure the data is always preserved in the log files.

thanks

partho.


 
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satyam_Ora Member Since: July 2007   Contribution: 29    

RE: What is the use of Redo Log Information ?
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 datafilesEach 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 recordNote : 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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