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Find Users Tablespaces.
How will you find out the user(scott) belongs to which tablespaces? (in Oracle)
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What are the functions of SMON ?
System Monitor (SMON) performs instance recovery at instance start-up. In a multiple instance system (one that uses the Parallel Server), SMON of one instance can also perform instance recovery for other instance that have failed SMON also cleans up temporary segments that are no longer in use and recovers dead transactions skipped during ...
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What is PGA ?
Program Global Area (PGA) is a memory buffer that contains data and control information for a server process.
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Database Security
What is database security? How will you use it?
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What do Database Buffers contain ?
Database buffers store the most recently used blocks of database data. It can also contain modified data that has not yet been permanently written to disk.
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What are the components of SGA ?
Database buffers, Redo Log Buffer the Shared Pool and Cursors.
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Kernel Package
Why is Oracle called kernel package?
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Oracle cluster
What is a cluster and how it is used
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What constitute an ORACLE Instance ?
SGA and ORACLE background processes constitute an ORACLE instance. (or) Combination of memory structure and background process.
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What is the function of checkpoint (CKPT)?
The Checkpoint (CKPT) process is responsible for signaling DBWR at checkpoints and updating all the data files and control files of the database.
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What is SGA ?
The System Global Area (SGA) is a shared memory region allocated by ORACLE that contains data and control information for one ORACLE instance.
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When Does DBWR write to the database ?
DBWR writes when more data needs to be read into the SGA and too few database buffers are free. The least recently used data is written to the data files first. DBWR also writes when CheckPoint occurs.
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When does LGWR write to the database ?
LGWR writes redo log entries into an on-line redo log file when transactions commit and the log buffer files are full.
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What is Shared Pool ?
Shared Pool is a portion of the SGA that contains shared memory constructs such as shared SQL areas.
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What do Redo Log Buffers contain ?
Redo Log Buffer stores redo entries a log of changes made to the database.
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What is Cursor ?
A Cursor is a handle ( a name or pointer) for the memory associated with a specific statement.
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What is Shared SQL Area ?
A Shared SQL area is required to process every unique SQL statement submitted to a database and contains information such as the parse tree and execution plan for the corresponding statement.
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What does LGWR do ?
Log Writer (LGWR) writes redo log entries generated in the redo log buffer of the SGA to on-line Redo Log File.
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Name the ORACLE Background Process ?
DBWR - Database Writer.LGWR - Log WriterCKPT - Check PointSMON - System MonitorPMON - Process MonitorARCH - ArchiverRECO - RecoverDnnn - Dispatcher, andLCKn - LockSnnn - Server.
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