> As we're getting firmly ensconced in 10g Land, I want to > update my very old diagram of the Oracle instance processes. > So I grabbed the Oracle Database Concepts manual for 10g > Release 2 (10.2) Part Number B14220-02 and checked out the > latest diagram on page 9-5. Apparently the docs are several > versions behind. Also be prepared that in 10g some of the redolog buffers, undo data and even some buffer cache can reside physically within shared pool. Now put that into a diagram :) Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l