Re: excessive archive log

  • From: "Don Seiler" <don@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:57:01 -0600

How are you inserting the data?  Just because a tablespace is in
NOLOGGING mode doesn't mean INSERTs aren't logged, that only applies
to direct-path/append INSERTs.  UPDATEs will always be logged
regardless.

Don.

On Dec 7, 2007 10:22 AM,  <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have an ETL database where virtually all activity are on tablespace in 
> nologging mode. 90% of our activity is inserts and 10% is updates of 1 column 
> that is not indexed. We do have indexes on the tables being inserted to. 
> Though not large numbers(2-4 with column length of 1-3). We do not have 
> really wide columns.
> all of this is in noarchive log tablespaces.
> We are getting relatively speaking alot of redo. We are getting more redo 
> than we are getting data generated.
>
> one thing we may be seeing is that we are using advanced queueing and it is 
> enqueued and dequeued constantly. Could this be causing our archive problems?
>
> how do we investigate this? can I use logminer to research this?

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