Oracle Interview Questions And Answers


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Oracle Interview Questions And Answers


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The advantages over file system files.

I/O will be improved because Oracle is bye-passing the kernnel
which writing into disk.
Disk Corruption will be very less.

38. What is a Control file ?

Database's overall physical architecture is maintained in a file
called control file. It will be used to maintain internal
consistency and guide recovery operations. Multiple copies of control
files are advisable.

39. How to implement the multiple control files for an existing
database ?

Shutdown the databse
Copy one of the existing control file to new location
Edit Config ora file by adding new control file.name
Restart the database.

40. What is meant by Redo Log file mirrorring ? How it can be achieved?

Process of having a copy of redo log files is called mirroring.

This can be achieved by creating group of log files together, so that
LGWR will automatically writes them to all the members of the
current on-line redo log group. If any one group fails then database
automatically switch over to next group. It degrades performance.

41. What is advantage of having disk shadowing/ Mirroring ?

Shadow set of disks save as a backup in the event of disk failure. In
most Operating System if any disk failure occurs it automatically
switchover to place of failed disk.

Improved performance because most OS support volume shadowing can
direct file I/O request to use the shadow set of files instead of the
main set of files. This reduces I/O load on the main set of disks.

42. What is use of Rollback Segments In Database ?

They allow the database to maintain read consistency between
multiple transactions.

43. What is a Rollback segment entry ?

It is the set of before image data blocks that contain rows that
are modified by a transaction.
Each Rollback Segment entry must be completed within one
rollback segment.

A single rollback segment can have multiple rollback segment entries.

44. What is hit ratio ?