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? -- Don Seiler http://seilerwerks.wordpress.com ultimate: http://www.mufc.us -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l