Quiesce Database

Quiesce Database

You can put the system into quiesced state. The system is in quiesced state if there are no active sessions, other than SYS and SYSTEM. An active session is defined as a session that is currently inside a transaction, a query, a fetch or a PL/SQL procedure, or a session that is currently holding any shared resources (for example, enqueues--enqueues are shared memory structures that serialize access to database resources and are associated with a session or transaction). Database administrators are the only users who can proceed when the system is in quiesced state.

Database administrators can perform. certain actions in the quiesced state that cannot be safely done when the system is not quiesced. These actions include:

• Actions that might fail if there are concurrent user transactions or queries. For example, changing the schema of a database table will fail if a concurrent transaction is accessing the same table.

• Actions whose intermediate effect could be detrimental to concurrent user transactions or queries. For example, suppose there is a big table T and a PL/SQL package that operates on it. You can split table T into two tables T1 and T2, and change the PL/SQL package to make it refer to the new tables T1 and T2, instead of the old table T.

  When the database is in quiesced state, you can do the following:

  CREATE TABLE T1 AS SELECT ... FROM T; 
  CREATE TABLE T2 AS SELECT ... FROM T; 
  DROP TABLE T; 
  
  

  You can then drop the old PL/SQL package and re-create it.

For systems that must operate continuously, the ability to perform. such actions without shutting down the database is critical.

The Database Resource Manager blocks all actions that were initiated by a user other than SYS or SYSTEM while the system is quiesced. Such actions are allowed to proceed when the system goes back to normal (unquiesced) state. Users do not get any additional error messages from the quiesced state.

How a Database Is Quiesced

The database administrator uses the ALTER 　SYSTEM 　QUIESCE 　RESTRICTED statement to quiesce the database. Only users SYS and SYSTEM can issue the ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement. For all instances with the database open, issuing this statement has the following effect:

• Oracle instructs the Database Resource Manager in all instances to prevent all inactive sessions (other than SYS and SYSTEM) from becoming active. No user other than SYS and SYSTEM can start a new transaction, a new query, a new fetch, or a new PL/SQL operation.

• Oracle waits for all existing transactions in all instances that were initiated by a user other than SYS or SYSTEM to finish (either commit or terminate). Oracle also waits for all running queries, fetches, and PL/SQL procedures in all instances that were initiated by users other than SYS or SYSTEM and that are not inside transactions to finish. If a query is carried out by multiple successive OCI fetches, Oracle does not wait for all fetches to finish. It waits for the current fetch to finish and then blocks the next fetch. Oracle also waits for all sessions (other than those of SYS or SYSTEM) that hold any shared resources (such as enqueues) to release those resources. After all these operations finish, Oracle places the database into quiesced state and finishes executing the QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement.

• If an instance is running in shared server mode, Oracle instructs the Database Resource Manager to block logins (other than SYS or SYSTEM) on that instance. If an instance is running in non-shared-server mode, Oracle does not impose any restrictions on user logins in that instance.

During the quiesced state, you cannot change the Resource Manager plan in any instance.

The ALTER　 SYSTEM 　UNQUIESCE statement puts all running instances back into normal mode, so that all blocked actions can proceed. An administrator can determine which sessions are blocking a quiesce from completing by querying the v$blocking_quiesce view.

 

source:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/consist.htm

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