what is meant by dirty buffers

From: Abdul Aleem <dmit_at_beaconhouse.edu.pk>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 03:43:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0045F2EE.20020513034320@fatcity.com>

Hi,

In a book I read that DBWO writes dirty data buffers from data buffer cache to the data files. I would appreciate if someone could kindly clear my confusion.

What is meant by dirty data buffers? If these are dirty (not good/healthy) why to write to these to data files?

TIA! Aleem

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