A database is divided into Logical Storage Unit called tablespaces. A tablespace is used to grouped related logical structures together.

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Sep 20th, 2007

It is a Logical area of storage in a Database, that directly corresponds to one or more physical files.

sandeep vig

• Oct 13th, 2005

A tablespace is a group of segments and a segment is a group of extents and an extent is a group of blocks.a tablespace can occupy two physical datafiles.

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Every ORACLE database contains a tablespace named SYSTEM, which is automatically created when the database is created. The SYSTEM tablespace always contains the data dictionary tables for the entire database.

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Sep 20th, 2007

Every Oracle Database contains a tablespace called system tablespace.This tablespace gets created at the time of database creation and it holds data dictionary information for the entire database.

Praveen

• Sep 15th, 2006

HelloAs far as i know, a system tablespace is the only tablespace which is created automatically, when the oracle DB is installed, no matter what the DB will contain atleast one tablespace and that  is the system tablespace. Do let me know if u have any other answers.Praveen.R

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A table is the basic unit of data storage in an ORACLE database. The tables of a database hold all of the user accessible data. Table data is stored in rows and columns.

pravesh28

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• Mar 27th, 2010

Table is manager which contain row and colomnin which store data ande retrive data

thumatinagaraju

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• Oct 24th, 2006

Table is data base object which stores the data in the logical representatiom in form of rows n coluns which is existing in two dimension form... and is stored in the databse.

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Temporary segments are created by ORACLE when a SQL statement needs a temporary work area to complete execution. When the statement finishes execution, the temporary segment extents are released to the system for future use.

manish hoiyani

• Sep 14th, 2006

temporary segments are basically used for sort operations in oracle,,when the user tries to execute the query through order by clause. so system needs an space for an sort operation, and system   will use temporary segments  for this query.

manu

• Apr 7th, 2006

  To execute any program in Computer it needs memory area(RAM), Oracle allocates some memeory  for processing SQL statement. After execution this memory is released for future use. This one call Temporary work area.

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Every ORACLE database has one or more physical data files. A database's data files contain all the database data. The data of logical database structures such as tables and indexes is physically stored in the data files allocated for a database.

sendhur

• Mar 15th, 2007

The data of logical database, say tables,indeses etc are stored in datafile.they can be associated with only one database. once created their size can not be altered. but we can add new data file to the table space.

Priya

• Sep 25th, 2006

Actually we can alter the size of the datafile by using the below syntaxSyntax :ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE RESIZE ;

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When an instance of an ORACLE database is started, its control file is used to identify the database and redo log files that must be opened for database operation to proceed. It is also used in database recovery.

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Oct 16th, 2007

Uses of a Controlfile:1.It is used to identify the names and locations of datafiles,redologfiles.2.Redo History is recorded during log switches.3.Checkpoint information is recorded at ckpts are m...

Lalit Vasuja

• Jan 4th, 2006

Control file contain the physical structure of database.it also contain the current log sequence number.when database mount ->open then oracle server check the consistency of the database through the control fie.

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Yes.

mayur

• Dec 24th, 2015

No, at a time only one tablespace as default can be allocate to any user. If we want to store objects of one user to multiple tablespace then assign that tablespaces as a default tablespace for user at a time

matabrez

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• Jan 10th, 2011

Yes objects of the same schema can reside in different tablepaces. Becuase when we create any schema (user) we can assign many tablespaces to one shcema so objects (eg. tables) will create in different tablespaces.

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The related columns of the tables in a cluster is called the Cluster Key.

Dheemathi

• Mar 4th, 2019

Cluster is a schema object that contains data from one or more tables, all of which have one or more columns in common. Oracle database stores together all the rows from all the tables that share the same cluster key.

pradeep

• May 5th, 2015

The related columns of the table in the cluster are called the cluster key

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Private database link is created on behalf of a specific user. A private database link can be used only when the owner of the link specifies a global object name in a SQL statement or in the definition of the owner's views or procedures.

Ravikumar

• Oct 18th, 2011

Database link is created by a user in his schema,it has 2 types

1.private database link
2.public database link /global

private database link is access the object in separate user

syntax:

create database link connect to username identified by password using 'db_name';

kailasTile

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• Oct 14th, 2011

Private database link is created by a user in his schema. While creating the link, the keyword GLOBAL is not used. The syntax for creation is CREATE DATABASE LINK myPrivateDBLink connect to identified by using ;
Private DB links can not be used by other schema's.

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A materialized view is a replica of a target master from a singlepoint in time. The concept was first introduced with Oracle7 termed asSNAPSHOT. In Oracle release 7.1.6 snapshots were enhanced to enableDMLs along with a new terminology, updatable snapshots. With Oracle8.1.6 snapshots started to be used in data warehouse environments so anew terminology materialized view was introduced to address bothdistributed...

irfanyell

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• Apr 24th, 2008

Both are mirror copy of tables but in that main difference is in snapshot we cannot edit the data. in the case of materialized view we can edit the data.

pravin Karde

• Sep 25th, 2006

sir  i m a M.E. student & i developed a project on Materialized view selection & maintenance.sir for this i urgently need the architecture of Materialized view & its operation. sir pl. help me & send me if  possible.thanks waiting +vely.

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From where does PMON gets the informance about failure? How is the user process terminited?

premk

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• Dec 23rd, 2009

When user process is terminated abruptly due to power cut or any other factors then oracle database instance goes down then PMON mandatory background process is activated i.e it will then writes the c...

aabishkar

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• Sep 28th, 2009

When a user process fails or when it is killed, it then cleans up the cache and frees resources that the process used. PMON checks server processes and restarts them if they have failed.

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What is the use of archive log file? How will you apply archive log file? How does archive log file helps to make backup consistent?

ARUN BHUKKER

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• Oct 19th, 2012

A Archive log file is used to archive the filled redo log files. and used in recovery.

It is used in recovery but not in instance recovery.
Rest it is used to make database consistent after recovery by matching header of data file and control file checkpoint information.

rsona

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• Mar 2nd, 2011

Hello Ganesh,Q : What is the use of archive log file? A : It is used for Point In Time Database Instance Recovery.     Q : How will you apply archive log file? A : Archive Log need...

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Harshad Khuspe

• Feb 26th, 2015

Virtual Tables are contains information about the base tables in oracle. Like V$database is virtual table which provide information of database name, open mode etc. or v$log will provide redo log members etc.

ARUN BHUKKER

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• Oct 19th, 2012

Either virtual table is a temporary table or v$ or Xv$ views

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Rollback Segments are used :To generate read-consistent database information during database recovery to rollback uncommitted transactions for users.

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Sep 18th, 2007

Rollback Segment Stores Undo Information and are used for the following purposes.1. To undo the previous command2. For read consistency and3. For crash recovery.

vijay

• Jun 15th, 2007

Transaction rollback:  Suppose if you  are updating the data, now you want to rollback so the old image will read from rollback segments.  You are old image from rollback segment.Transa...

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

satyam_Ora

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• May 21st, 2008

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 th...

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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A Control file records the physical structure of the database. It contains the following information.Database NameNames and locations of a database's files and redolog files.Time stamp of database creation.

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Sep 20th, 2007

The controlfile contains :1. Name and Location of Datafiles, Redo Logfiles.2. Timestamp of Database Creation.3. Current log sequence number is recorded when log switches are occur.4. Checkpoint inform...

nagabhushan reddy

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• Mar 7th, 2006

control file is a binary filewhich having information 1.database name2.database creation3.checkpoint information4.no of datafiles5.redolog files

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raghu2110

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• May 20th, 2008

Blob datatype is used for storing large Binary data Like Photos,signatures etc Clob datatype is used for stoeing large character data upto 4GB like resume and other docs

manish hoiyani

• Sep 14th, 2006

Clob, blob, used to unstructured data and binary data respectively.

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The data dictionary of an ORACLE database is a set of tables and views that are used as a read-only reference about the database.It stores information about both the logical and physical structure of the database, the valid users of an ORACLE database, integrity constraints defined for tables in the database and space allocated for a schema object and how much of it is being used.

Sudhakar

• Sep 27th, 2007

Data Dictionary is a read-only set of tables that provides information about the database. in order to avoid the I/O cost, these data dictionary views are used

Mohammed Abdul Afroze

• Mar 25th, 2007

Answer.  Oracle continously requests and update the information in the data dictionary of the database.To minimize the performance of the system internal operation,data dictionary cache holds the dictionary information.

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ORACLE database's data is stored in data blocks. One data block corresponds to a specific number of bytes of physical database space on disk.

matabrez

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• Jan 10th, 2011

Smallest logical of Oracle database. In Oracle 10g default data block size is 8192 byres means 8k.
Other data block size are 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32kWe have only these available data blocks in oracle database.

C.Ramesh

• Oct 27th, 2007

Oracle Data Blocks is logical storage unit of Oracle and One Oracle Data Blocks containts multiple of Operating system Blocks. Data blocks contains contigous of Bytes.

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Where does the process dumps information about the error?

ARUN BHUKKER

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• Oct 19th, 2012

Errors are stored in alert.log file it can be shecked using the parameter background_dump_dest

Use show parameter background_dump_dest
for path of the alert.log in trace directory

matabrez

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• Jan 10th, 2011

Alerts will log to alert.log  and alert trace files will be saved in  $ORACLE_HOME/admin/bdump directory.

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