Answered Questions

  • SMON Process Instance Failure

    How does the SMON process performs recovery after instance failure?

    ranjithsv18

    • Oct 2nd, 2013

    When hardware failure, software failue and shutdown abnormally happen... SMON taking care of Instance failure, coalesce failure space and deallocating temp segment start to recover instance Roll fw...

    Nagaraj OCP

    • Dec 27th, 2011

    When shutdown abort happens, oracle server gets crashed. To recover from the crash, SMON will check the online Redo data files and last SCN no in the Redo log files and SCN number in the undo tablespa...

  • 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.

    Dinesh Chandra

    • Aug 27th, 2012

    Redo log records the changes made in database. Redo logs is mainly used to recover data.