Brian Peasland wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>> Brian Peasland wrote:
>>> What is the use of this application? I already have Log Miner to show
>>> me the contents of the online redo log. Obviously, this is not in
>>> realtime like a "tail -f" is, but then why do I care? Do I really
>>> need to see the transactions scroll by. In many cases, they would be
>>> scrolling by too fast to read anyway. I have some databases that fill
>>> up a 1GB online redo log file in less than five minutes. Not to
>>> mention the resources now being utilized on your database server.
>>> LGWR is writing to the log group. Eventually, ARCn will read from it.
>>> And now there will be another process reading that file, while LGWR
>>> is writing to it?
>>>
>>> I'm not trying to say that this idea does not have merit. I'm just
>>> wondering what the practical application of this would be. I just do
>>> not see it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Brian
>>
>> For real-time debugging it might be of interest.
>
> Personally, I'd rather dump the log file as Steve noted.
>
>> For teaching students what Oracle is doing it would be of real value.
>
> In an academic setting, sure. And even in a business setting for the DBA
> to learn. But in either case, I do not need to see the changes in real
> time. I can dump the log and look at the results.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
Agreed.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Thu May 11 2006 - 13:39:32 CDT
