Re: How much time can save using _disable_logging on 10g

Thanks Chris, I agree with you, a simple shutdown immediate crashed my test database too, but anyway is interesting to know its limitations.

Can you tell me please how much time you saved :) only for statistics. when migrating.

Thanks in Advance.

On 10/11/05, Marquez, Chris <cmarquez_at_collegeboard.org> wrote:
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> >>shutdown abort with _disable_logging and you'll see some interesting
> consequences
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> Ahhhh yes we conversed on this topic a while back. I used _disable_logging
> for migration purposes after a lot of TEST my process.
> I kept wondering why my test db was crashing hard...we had some disk issue
> at the time, so that seemed the culprit.
> Turns out I kept leaving my TEST db up with _disable_logging enabled during
> server reboots...it did not come back happily
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> A great and very, very challenging recovery filled with undocumented
> parameters that rendered my TEST database un-supported.
> I was able to recover sometimes, but others not.
> Think I was "bumping scn's" and allowing reset log corruption.
> You have not lived until you have recovered a database this way...nasty!
> :o)
> Also, learned and documented the "clean way" to stop using _disable_logging
> and put my db back in archive log mode.
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> Sorry, "yes" _disable_logging saved time during my migration (at the risk
> of loosing it all on the *new* server, but not on the old server).
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> Chris Marquez
> Oracle DBA
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> shutdown immediate is still a clean shutdown.
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> Try shutdown abort with _disable_logging and you'll see some interesting
> consequences
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> hth
> connor
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