For recovering from instance crash/abort. From: "Richard, Carmelinda" <Carmelinda.Richard@xxxxxxx> To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 03/28/2012 10:39 AM Subject: redo logs in noarchivelog mode Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx This may be a stupid question, but I was installing a new database for the first time, and I started wondering, what is the useful purpose of redo logs if a database is in noarchivelog mode? Only if the database crashes and transactions were written to the redo logs before they make it into the database files? Thanks, Carmelinda -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l