July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 32m
English
File header dumps will be very useful while diagnosing errors related to media recovery. These file headers will contain the various SCN numbers used for database recovery operations and hold important information such as checkpoint details, the redo information address (rba), extent information, and the high water mark for that datafile.
The following methods show how to dump the file header information.
In the following ALTER SESSION command, the file headers are dumped at level 10.
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The following oradebug command sequence shows how to dump file headers at level 10.
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