RE: Oracle on windows and shadow thread file access

> Maybe not all of the data files, but the users dedicated server
> process will open datafiles as needed to read data into the
> block buffer.
>
> Now I don't know if I've helped any, or just added to the confusion.
>
> Jared

No, that was pretty much what I wanted to know - was there any time when a user's dedicated server process - as opposed to smon, pmon, chpt, arch, lgwr, dbwr, etc. - actually acquired a file handle and opened the file.

Thanks for the discussion on this.

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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