Oracle Tips by Burleson

Oracle 10g RMAN Enabling, Disabling and Monitoring Block Change Tracking

By default, Oracle will not record block change information.  To enable this feature, you need to issue the following command:

SQL> alter database enable block change tracking;

To disable this feature, you issue this command:

SQL> alter database disable block change tracking;

To monitor the status of block change tracking, you type:

SQL> select file, status, bytes
   2 from   v$block_change_tracking;

STATUS       FILE                          BYTES
-----------  ----------------------------  ---------------
ENABLED      /dba/backup/01_mf_yzmrr7.chg  10,000,000

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