In an earlier article, I explained why you might see log file switches taking place much more frequently than expected, with the archived redo files being much smaller than the online redo log files.
When I do presentations about the odd effects that can appear in a fairly ordinary Oracle system, I’m often asked what I did to work out what was happening under the covers. In this article, I will describe a few of the steps I took to investigate this aspect of the logging and archiving mechanism. It’s not rocket science, and most of the time, all I