Thursday 22 May 2014

ARCHIVELOG mode vs NOARCHIVELOG mode

What is the difference between ARCHIVELOG mode and NOARCHIVELOG mode?

ARCHIVELOG mode:
ARCHIVELOG mode is a mode where we put database to backup all transactions into logs(archivelogs) ,which help us in recovery scenarios.With the help of archived logs we can recover database till any point of time.
During archivelog mode redo information is written into archive logs using ARCn process.In order to utilize RMAN and HOT backup type of technologies we need our database to be in archivelog mode.

NOARCHIVELOG mode:
NOARCHIVELOG mode is basically the absence of ARCHIVELOG mode and has the disadvantage of not being able to recover to any  point of time we need.
NOARCHIVELOG mode does have the advantage of not having to write transactions to an archive log and thus increases the performance of the database slightly.


Related links: http://orcl11gdba.blogspot.in/2014/03/enabling-archive-log-mode.html


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