RE: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

From: Jiang, Lu [mailto:Lu.Jiang_at_umassmed.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:41 PM To: Bobak, Mark; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

Had checked the following and returned 'Not Active'. We only do backups at full db level with rman during evenings.

From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:39 PM To: Jiang, Lu; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

Database being open and normal mode is fine, but datafiles could still be in backup mode.

What do you get from:
select * from v$backup where status='ACTIVE'; ??

If that returns any rows, those files are in backup mode.

-Mark

From: Jiang, Lu [mailto:Lu.Jiang_at_umassmed.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:20 PM To: Bobak, Mark; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

No. The database is open and normal mode.

From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:12 PM To: Jiang, Lu; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

Is the tablespace in backup mode?

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jiang, Lu Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:54 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Incremental checkpoints and CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

Hi DBA Gurus,

Does anyone know why checkpoint scn does not write to datafile header in the following scenario?

Parameter log_checkpoint_timeout = 1200

• Incremental checkpoints show in alert.log:

Wed Jan 13 13:47:43 2010
Incremental checkpoint up to RBA [0x79e.1cacf6.0], current log tail at RBA [0x79e.1cb16a.0] Wed Jan 13 14:07:43 2010
Incremental checkpoint up to RBA [0x79e.1cc865.0], current log tail at RBA [0x79e.1ccd64.0] Wed Jan 13 14:27:47 2010
Incremental checkpoint up to RBA [0x79e.1ceb74.0], current log tail at RBA [0x79e.1d0193.0] Wed Jan 13 14:47:47 2010
Incremental checkpoint up to RBA [0x79e.1d101b.0], current log tail at RBA [0x79e.1d12e2.0]

• CHECKPOINT_CHANGE# has not been updated in v$datafile_header view, it stays with yesterdays check point info:

SQL> select distinct CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#, CHECKPOINT_TIME from v$datafile_header;

CHECKPOINT_CHANGE# CHECKPOINT_TIME
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         580705781 12-JAN-10 Thanks,
Lu

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