Oracle instance consists of SGA and oracle processes. Oracle processes can be divided into server processes and background processes. Oracle database uses background processes to perform overall database operations, for example, database writer process writes dirty buffer from database buffer cache to datafiles. (more…)
In this post, you will learn how to recover a database using RMAN. To recover database, an RMAN backup is required. In last article, it was explained that how we can take backup using RMAN. (more…)
Following section explains how we can take full database backup using RMAN command line interface on windows.
Before tacking backup, decide which type of backup you want to take. You can take online or offline backup using RMAN. (more…)
Recovery Manager (RMAN) is client/server utility provided by oracle to perform backup and recovery operations on oracle database. RMAN is available in command-line interface as well as in Enterprise manager GUI. RMAN is part of oracle database and does not require separate installation or configuration. (more…)
Suppose we have a text file named “emp.data”. This text files contains employees data in following format,
1, Michle , clerk
2, king , manager
3, joe , clerk
What if we want to use this data in SQL query? Remember we do not want to import this data in oracle database but we want to reference this data from its physical location. To achieve this oracle database has provided a feature called External Tables. Using this feature, we can register “emp.dat” file in oracle database as external table. (more…)
We take complete physical backup of database by copying physical database files including datafiles, control files, password file and parameter file. Backup can be online backup or offline backup. In online backup, our database is in open stage and datafiles have different SCN. (more…)
Often database developers require temporary storage location which is private to session. To accomplish this requirement, Oracle database allows us to create Temporary tables. Temporary tables are of two types (more…)
When a query tries to modify database, original data entries are kept in separate location and then changes are applied to datafiles. The data which is kept in separate location is called Undo data. Undo data is used to maintain data integrity and data consistency. Oracle uses Undo data in following situations (more…)
Oracle has provided powerful mechanism to protect database in situation of data loss. This mechanism includes a range of methods to Backup and Recover your data. First step is to backup you data and second step is to recover required data. Broadly speaking, oracle supports two types of backups, Logical Backup and Physical database backups.
This article explains configuration of oracle Database 10g as shared server. Before reading this article you must have concept of Oracle shared server and dedicated server architecture. Visit following link to revive shared server and dedicated server architecture.
http://exploreoracle.com/2009/07/17/oracle-shared-server-and-oracle-dedicated-server-architecture/
Configuration of shared server involves only few steps. Oracle database 10g has pre-configured setting to enable shared server. Shared server can be configured by setting values for few initialization parameters at run time. These parameters can also be initialized in initialization parameter file. Following section discusses these parameters in detail. (more…)