Multiple choice technology databases

Which component will never allocate memory from the larger pool

  1. Oracle Library Cache

  2. Oracle Parallel Query

  3. Oracle Recovery Manager

  4. Oracle Multithreaded Server
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a backup and recovery tool that never uses the Large Pool - it allocates memory from the PGA (Process Global Area) and uses its own buffers. The Large Pool is used for components like Shared Server (formerly Multithreaded Server), Parallel Query, and Recovery Manager (backup operations during restore) - wait, this is confusing. Actually, RMAN does use Large Pool for some operations like disk I/O buffers during backup/restore. The correct answer is likely about which component specifically doesn't use it - Library Cache uses Shared Pool, not Large Pool. But the claimed answer is C (RMAN). This may be outdated or specific to certain RAN operations.

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