Denise, you do not delete from v$archive_log. The control file area that keeps track of the archived redo logs is used in a circular fashion. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Gwinn Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:52 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: ARCHIVE LOG QUESTION I have set up rman using flash_recovery. I've run a couple of backups for testing. When I do the command: SQL> archive log list It returns oldest online sequence of 926; next log sequence to archive is 928. However when I do: SQL> select name from v$archived_log; It returns 664 rows. Is there a graceful way to get rid of the first 661 rows? Denise Gwinn DBA WVNET -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l