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System Global Area (SGA) Part 1: What We Will Learn in This Lecture?

The System Global Area (SGA) is a shared memory that contains data and control information for a database instance. It maintains internal data structures, caches data blocks and redo data, and stores execution plans. The SGA contains components like the shared pool for caching non-user data, the database buffer cache for caching user data blocks, and the redo log buffer for storing redo entries before writing to redo log files on disk. These components help improve performance by reducing physical I/O operations and enabling data sharing between users and processes.

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System Global Area (SGA) Part 1: What We Will Learn in This Lecture?

The System Global Area (SGA) is a shared memory that contains data and control information for a database instance. It maintains internal data structures, caches data blocks and redo data, and stores execution plans. The SGA contains components like the shared pool for caching non-user data, the database buffer cache for caching user data blocks, and the redo log buffer for storing redo entries before writing to redo log files on disk. These components help improve performance by reducing physical I/O operations and enabling data sharing between users and processes.

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Database Instance

System Global Area (SGA) Part 1

What we will learn in this lecture?

 What is System Global Area ( SGA )?


 Main tasks of SGA
 Shared Pool
 Database buffer cache
 Redo Log Buffer

Prepared By :Khaled AlKhudari Oracle DBA


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Database Instance
A database instance is a set of memory structures and processes that manage database files

What is System Global Area ( SGA )

The SGA is a group of shared memory structures that


contain data and control
information for one database instance.

Main tasks of SGA

 Maintaining internal data structures that many


processes access concurrently
 Caching data blocks read from disk
 Buffering redo data before writing it to the
online redo log files
 Storing SQL execution plans

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Shared Pool
 The most important component of SGA
 Cache non user Data like Data dictionary ( metadata: data about data ex: DBA_tables)
 Shared Pool contains sub components like Data dictionary cache, library cache ,server result cache
and many others
 Store the cached information about each SQL statement that is executed, like execution plan

Hard parse

User A Exec Plan


info User B

Select * from DEPT; Select * from DEPT;


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Database buffer cache
 responsible for caching database user data.
 The buffer cache caches frequently accessed database data into memory.
Note: The buffer cache caches blocks of data instead of individual rows ( 1 block=8 kB by default )
 All users who are concurrently connected to the database share and access a single database buffer
cache
 The buffer cache including the keep pool, recycle pool, and others

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Redo Log Buffer
 circular buffer that hold information about changes made to the database
 designed to store redo entries (small records that reflect any changes made to the database as part
of transactions or database structure changes)
Note: Redo entries are used for database recovery when and if needed.
 the Redo Log entries in the RedoLog buffer are also written on a periodic basis to a set of files in our
Oracle database storage known as Redo logs files

Redo 1

The changes are applied to the actual rows


Update statement which are cached in the buffer cache
commit
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Thank You

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