RE: How much time can save using _disable_logging on 10g

  • From: "Marquez, Chris" <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:01:53 -0400

>>shutdown abort with _disable_logging and you'll see some interesting
consequences

Ahhhh yes we conversed on this topic a while back.  I used
_disable_logging   for migration purposes after a lot of TEST my
process.
I kept wondering why my test db was crashing hard...we had some disk
issue at the time, so that seemed the culprit.
Turns out I kept leaving my TEST db up with _disable_logging  enabled
during server reboots...it did not come back happily
 
A great and very, very challenging recovery filled with undocumented
parameters that rendered my TEST database un-supported.
I was able to recover sometimes, but others not.
Think I was "bumping scn's" and allowing reset log corruption.
You have not lived until you have recovered a database this way...nasty!
 :o)
Also, learned and documented the "clean way" to stop using
_disable_logging  and put my db back in archive log mode.
 
Sorry, "yes"  _disable_logging saved time during my migration (at the
risk of loosing it all on the *new* server, but not on the old server).
 
Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Connor McDonald
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:08 AM
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Subject: Re: How much time can save using _disable_logging on 10g


shutdown immediate is still a clean shutdown.

Try shutdown abort with _disable_logging and you'll see some interesting
consequences

hth
connor



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