Question on ASM Views.

Hi DBA's,

Is it possible to view the V$ asm views when the database is down.If Yes where it is getting the information. Please correct me if i am wrong.

Have you tried it? V$asm views, as far as I know, are not fixed views, thus the +ASM database needs to be running for you to query these views.

Gandolf,

My Question is When my database is down, I am able to query V$Views from +ASM Instance.As our +ASM is not a database, i would like to know , where the information of V$ views of +ASM is kept.

thanks
Gopu

+ASM is a database

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Originally Posted by davey23uk

+ASM is a database

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I'll second that!!! :p

I thought he was talking about connecting to +ASM using SQL Plus when the database is in startup nomount mode. It's not a traditional database in the it doesn't have everything that a traditional Oracle database has. But technically it is a database.

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Originally Posted by davey23uk

+ASM is a database

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ASM functionality is controlled by an ASM instance and it is not a full database instance, just the memory structures.

My Doubt here is very clear, ASM information can be queried from diff V$ASM_% views. Whether those information can be queried from ASM Instance or a dependent database ? I dont have a test database here to do some exp :o

I think it depends, whether they are queried from the ASM instance, or a dependant database instance.