logs are marked as active if they contain data which is *needed* for crash
recovery, in otherwords the system hasn't checkpointed yet.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/
"D. Alvarado" <laredotornado_at_zipmail.com> wrote in message
news:9fe1f2ad.0404070528.f014a30_at_posting.google.com...
> I am running Oracle 8.1.7. I understand that if a database is
> undergoing crash recovery redo logs would be marked as 'ACTIVE' in the
> appropriate V$ views, but I read somewhere that they would also be
> marked as 'ACTIVE' when the database is experiencing intense,
> long-running transactions. Why would this be?
>
> Thanks, - Dave
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 09:12:31 CDT
