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Question: What does a Control file Contain ?

Answer: A Control file records the physical structure of the database. It contains the following information. Database Name
Names and locations of a database's files and redolog files.
Time stamp of database creation.

A Control file records the physical structure of the database. It contains the following information. Database Name
Names and locations of a database's files and redolog files.
Time stamp of database creation. Source: CoolInterview.com

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3) Information used to recover the database in the case of a disk failure or user error Source: CoolInterview.com

Database name,Timestamp,
Name and Location of data ,log files,
Checkpoint info,
Sequence No,Archive info,
Tablespace name ,
Undo and Redo information also stored in control file. Source: CoolInterview.com

Database name,Timestamp of database creation,
Name and Location of data files and log files,
Checkpoint info,
Sequence No,Archive info,
Tablespace name ,
Undo and Redo information,rman metadata also stored in control file.


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