July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
756 pages
21h 2m
English
CHAPTER 5
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Managing Control Files, Online Redo Logs, and Archiving
An Oracle database consists of three types of mandatory files: data files, control files, and online redo logs. Chapter 4 focused on tablespaces and data files. This chapter looks at managing control files and online redo logs and implementing archiving (of the online redo logs). The first part of the chapter discusses typical control file maintenance tasks, such adding, moving, and removing control files. The middle part of the chapter examines DBA activities related to online redo log files, such as renaming, adding, dropping, and relocating these critical files. Finally, the ...
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