Oracle Instance

• Oracle consists of a database and an instance.
  • An instance is a combination of the pool of physical memory (RAM) allocated to Oracle, referred to as the System Global Area (SGA), and the background processes that Oracle spawns to use this memory pool.
    • SGA: Area where Oracle attempts to cache database data for faster access (RAM I/O is about 1000x faster than disk I/O).

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