V$INSTANCE

This view displays the state of the current instance. This version of V$INSTANCE is not compatible with earlier versions of V$INSTANCE.

Column	Datatype	Description
INSTANCE_NUMBER	NUMBER	Instance number used for instance registration. Corresponds to INSTANCE_NUMBER initialization parameter. See Also: "INSTANCE_NUMBER"
INSTANCE_NAME	VARCHAR2(16)	Instance name
HOST_NAME	VARCHAR2(64)	Name of the host machine
VERSION	VARCHAR2(17)	RDBMS version
STARTUP_TIME	DATE	Time when instance was started up
STATUS	VARCHAR2(7)	STARTED/MOUNTED/OPEN STARTED after startup nomount MOUNTED after startup mount or alter database close OPEN after startup or after database open
PARALLEL	VARCHAR2(3)	(YES | NO) in Oracle Application Cluster mode
THREAD#	NUMBER	Redo thread opened by the instance
ARCHIVER	VARCHAR2(7)	(STOPPED | STARTED | FAILED) FAILED means that the archiver failed to archive a log last time, but will try again within 5 minutes
LOG_SWITCH_WAIT	VARCHAR2(11)	The ARCHIVE LOG/CLEAR LOG/CHECKPOINT event log switching is waiting for. Note that if ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE is hung, but there is room in the current online redo log, then value is NULL
LOGINS	VARCHAR2(10)	ALLOWED | RESTRICTED
SHUTDOWN_PENDING	VARCHAR2(3)	YES | NO
DATABASE_STATUS	VARCHAR2(17)	The status of the database
INSTANCE_ROLE	VARCHAR2(16)	Describes whether the instance is an active instance (PRIMARY_INSTANCE) or a inactive secondary instance (SECONDARY_INSTANCE), or UNKNOWN if the instance has been started but not mounted
ACTIVE_STATE	VARCHAR2(9)	(NORMAL|QUIESCING|QUIESCED). NORMAL indicates the database is in a normal state. QUIESCING indicates that the ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement has been issued: no new user transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements are processed in this instance. User transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements issued before the ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement are unaffected. DBA transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements are also unaffected. QUIESCED indicates that the ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement has been issued: no user transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements are processed. DBA transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements are unaffected. User transactions, queries, or PL/SQL statements issued after the ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement are not processed. Note that a single ALTER SYSTEM QUIESCE RESTRICTED statement quiesces all instances in an Oracle9i Real Application Clusters environment. After this statement has been issued, some instances may enter into a quiesced state before other instances; the system is quiesced when all instances enter the quiesced state.