Internals: Control File Records

What kind of records that control file maintains in Oracle database?

Lets have a look.

SQL> oradebug setmypid
Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug unlimit;
Statement processed.
SQL> alter session set events 'immediate trace name controlf level 9';
Session altered.

SQL> oradebug tracefile_name;
/home/oracle/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/testdb/testdb/trace/testdb_ora_1238.trc
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production

[oracle@host~]$

egrep "ENTRY|RECORD" /home/oracle/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/testdb/testdb/trace/testdb_ora_1238.trc

DATABASE ENTRY
CHECKPOINT PROGRESS RECORDS
EXTENDED DATABASE ENTRY
REDO THREAD RECORDS
LOG FILE RECORDS
DATA FILE RECORDS
TEMP FILE RECORDS
TABLESPACE RECORDS
RMAN CONFIGURATION RECORDS
FLASHBACK LOGFILE RECORDS
THREAD INSTANCE MAPPING RECORDS
MTTR RECORDS
STANDBY DATABASE MAP RECORDS
RESTORE POINT RECORDS
ACM SERVICE RECORDS
LOG FILE HISTORY RECORDS
OFFLINE RANGE RECORDS
ARCHIVED LOG RECORDS
FOREIGN ARCHIVED LOG RECORDS
BACKUP SET RECORDS
BACKUP PIECE RECORDS
BACKUP DATAFILE RECORDS
BACKUP LOG RECORDS
DATAFILE COPY RECORDS
BACKUP DATAFILE CORRUPTION RECORDS
DATAFILE COPY CORRUPTION RECORDS
DELETION RECORDS
PROXY COPY RECORDS
INCARNATION RECORDS
RMAN STATUS RECORDS
DATAFILE HISTORY RECORDS
NORMAL RESTORE POINT RECORDS
DATABASE BLOCK CORRUPTION RECORDS

-Thanks

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