Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning
by Richmond Shee, Kirtikumar Deshpande, K Gopalakrishnan
Redo Log Dump
Redo logs keep the undo and redo information of every atomic database change operations. The changes are recorded as opcodes (operation codes), which are usually in the form of layer code.operation code format. For example, opcode 4.1 indicates block cleanout operation at transaction block layer.
Note, redo layers are not to be confused with Oracle’s kernel layers. Redo layers are used only in conjunction with redo generation and redo logging.
Redo log dumps are normally requested by Oracle Support to analyze the data corruption (logical corruption) issues. If it is used intelligently it can be an auditing tool also. For example, if you would like to know the time and date of an extent allocated for a segment, you can dump the relevant ...
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