Summary
• The Oracle Database is one of the relational databases supported by the SAP application. A list of all supported databases can be obtained from the product availability matrix.
• The Oracle Database consists primarily of a passive database and an Oracle instance.
• The database consists of logical data units referred to as tablespaces.
• Each tablespace has one or more physical datafiles.
• Datafiles permanently store the committed data from database operations.
• Redo log files store redo information. They are useful when instance recovery is needed after a power failure or network issue.
• The control file has the exact structure of the physical database. It is read at instance start.
• The Oracle instance consists of the memory structures ...
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