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What is the effect on database at the time of total power failure when an UPDATE query is under execution in Oracle 9i?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: June 24, 2009     Asked by: prasads_delight1 
  
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June 24, 2009 02:20:39   #1  
Ram Sangwan Member Since: June 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: Power Failure
When the power failure occurs while an update statement is running. When the database is restarted it does an automatic recovery when it finds the update statements pending it performs a rollback of the update statement.

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-Ram

 
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What is the effect on database at the time of total power failure when an UPDATE query is under execution in Oracle 9i?  
Latest Answer : When the power failure occurs while an update statement is running. When the database is restarted it does an automatic recovery, when it finds the update statements pending, it performs a rollback of the update statement.Regards-Ram ...


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