What column differentiates the V$ views to the GV$ views and how ?
• 17. How would you go about generating an EXPLAIN plan? • 18. How would you go about increasing the buffer cache hit ratio? • 19. Explain an ORA-01555 • 20. Explain the difference between $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_BASE. • 21. How would you determine the time zone under which a database was operating? • 22. Explain the use of setting GLOBAL_NAMES equal to TRUE. • 23. What command would you use to encrypt a PL/SQL application? • 24. Explain the difference between a FUNCTION, PROCEDURE and PACKAGE. • 25. Explain the use of table functions. • 26. Name three advisory statistics you can collect. • 27. Where in the Oracle directory tree structure are audit traces placed? • 28. Explain materialized views and how they are used. • 29. When a user process fails, what background process cleans up after it? • 30. What background process refreshes materialized views? • 31. How would you determine what sessions are connected and what resources they are waiting for? • 32. Describe what redo logs are.