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Old 12-25-2006, 08:59 AM
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DBWR..Database Writer is one of the mandatory oracle processes.Its responsibility includes writing data blocks from memory (buffer cache) to the hard disk. there are certain times during the normal database activity where dbwr is invoked to write blocks on disk one of which is the checkpoint event. On each checkpoint event blocks that havent been written to the disk from the last checkpoint event are written to disk and made permanent.
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