Sinardy Xing wrote:
> 
> The developer application running huge batch inserting data into database,
> that is what they told me, if you are me what you will do?
Sinardy,

You definitely want to turn archiving on.  

Without it, your recovery options are limited to the last offline backup
of the database.  If you do an offline backup of the development DB
every night, then the most that would be lost is one day's worth of
development.  Depending on how and where the developers write and store
their code, the least that would be lost is one day's worth of
transactions in the development DB.    

Beyond that however, is the fact that you are a developer in a sense as
well.  Tuning databases to avoid the kind of contention the developers
are worried about is part of what you do for a living.  If the
developer's fears are correct, and archiving causes their database to
respond poorly, what will happen when their code goes into an archived
production database?  There are many parameters you can alter and steps
you can take to reduce, minimize, or eliminate this type of contention. 
Combinations of things like adding redo logs, increasing the size of the
log buffer, altering checkpoints, looking at v$latch and making
appropriate adjustments to log_small_entry_max_size or
log_simultaneous_copies are just a few of the options available to you
as the DBA.  Examining the code processing the batch is another.  

Tuning is like detective work, and is probably my favorite part of being
a DBA.  Start with one of the tuning manuals off OTN, then pick up (and
read) Steve Adam's "Oracle 8i Internal Services" from O'Reilly.

You'll be a better DBA, and who knows, you might even be able to teach
the developers a trick or two.

Good Luck.

David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Testa
> Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 11:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> assuming you're the dba, since when does the developer dictate
> recoverability to a DBA about a database.
> 
> sounds like a role problem there.
> 
> joe
> 
> Sinardy Xing wrote:
> >
> > Our Developer prefer the archive off, I can't change that anymore :(
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 8:54 PM
> > To: LazyDBA mailing list
> >
> > Turn archiving on.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sinardy Xing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:57 AM
> > > To: LazyDBA mailing list
> > > Subject: Recovery from noarchive db corrected
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My database is noarchive mode, what should I do to prevent
> > > from lossing any
> > > transactions ?
> > > Like for example incresed the REDO buffer to ... (daily buffer)?
> > > Will this decrese the performance ?
> > > any technique to share ?
> > >
> > > Sinardy
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