System Global Area

In the database management systems developed by the Oracle Corporation, the System Global Area (SGA) forms the part of the RAM shared by all the processes belonging to a single Oracle database instance. The SGA contains all information necessary for the instance operation.

In general, the SGA consists of the following:

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "Memory Architecture" in Oracle Database Concepts 11g Release 1 (11.1)