DATABASE Question

Chapter 16 Assignment

Read Chapter 16 and answer the following questions.

1. A technician accidentally drops screw into the server case and shorts out the motherboard of

the server that is running you Oracle database (the database is running at the time of the

incident). What type of failure is this and how would it be resolved?

2. While the database is shutdown an operator moves the folder containing the flash recovery area

to a new drive. When the database is restarted, a message appears that a file stored in the old

location of the flash recovery area cannot be found. What type of failure is this and how would

it be resolved?

3. A developer is working on an updated version of the DEMO schema. She has made numerous

changes to the organization of tables in the schema. She accidentally deletes her updated copy

of the EMPLOYEE table. What type of failure is this and how would it be resolved in the simplest

way?

4. Assume you are the DBA and you notice that member B of REDO log group 2 is INVALID. How

would you correct this situation so that group 2 has all of its members?

5. Assume you are the DBA and you restart your database. During the process, you receive a

message that CONTROL01.CTL is missing. How would you resolve this problem in the simplest

way possible?

6. Assume you are the DBA and you restart your database. During the process, you receive a

message that a datafile for the USERS tablespace is missing. How would you resolve this

problem in the simplest way possible?