Thank you Jeremy. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > And what is no-force-at-commit policy, as mentioned in this paper > > > > I can take a stab at this... "no-force-at-commit policy" just means that > when you COMMIT a transaction, the change is made to a cached copy of the > data block in memory - but the data block does not need to be written back > to disk for the COMMIT to complete. In Oracle when you insert, update or > delete data the actual data block does not get immediately written to disk. > The rows you have modified are written to the redo log and the transaction > is safe because Oracle can reconstruct the data using an old version of the > block plus the redo log. > At the data/bytes level - what are the key differences between complete vs incremental checkpointing. After some search, I think I have found a possible answer: http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:19311485023372 Let me analyze further. Thank you for the help!!! -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l