Split Blocks on Instance Crash

From: Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2005-12-22 15:45:31
Message-id: 20051222144531.64650.qmail@web33104.mail.mud.yahoo.com

Hi All,

I should know this but can't quite work it out - too much festive spirit perhaps :-)

Why does instance crash recovery not encounter the split blocks that you might get doing a backup without BEGIN/END BACKUP? If this instance crashes then presumably DBWR might die in the middle of writing database blocks to disk.

Why is this not a problem? (Assuming a non-journalled filesystem)

Thank you
Charlotte

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Received on Thu Dec 22 2005 - 15:45:31 CST