Hi Finn, Mark's comment on feasubility is complete. Nothing to add. However for pure theoretical investigation... At least we know now, that Oracle RDBMS doesn't keep a track of NOLOGGING operations at the segment level. Does it? I'd look at the definition of GV$SEGMENT_STATISTICS and x$ksolsfts. This x$-table keeps the runtime statistics (FTS_STATNAM), and if you see 'physical writes direct' there, it might be (or not - in case of PQO) an indication of direct load, probably with the NOLOGGING. BTW, it would be nice to see the version of the product (RDBMS) in your future posts. HTH, -- Andrey Finn Jorgensen wrote: > Mark, > > I appreciate your input and you are right force logging will fix the > issue and yes standby databases prompted this effort in the first place. > > The reason for my looking for the objects is that I wrote a monitor to > check for datafiles that had recent nologging activity and then list > the objects that were not logged. This particular database, as can be > seen, reports no objects yet there's nologging activity. I want to be > able to go back to the app/dev guys and ask them if it's on purpose > these objects are set to nologging. It's possible I break > (considerably slow down) some load process if I just indiscriminently > turn on force logging. > > Looks like I'll have to test the sql*loader with unrecoverable/direct > turned on. > > Finn > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Mark Brinsmead > <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Why bother to track down objects with NOLOGGING? > > ... > Check out FORCE_LOGGING. It ought to meet your needs. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l