V$ARCHIVE_DEST displays, for the current instance, all of the destinations in the Data Guard configuration, including each destination's current value, mode, and status.
| Column | Datatype | Description | 
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| DEST_ID | NUMBER | Log archive destination parameter identifier ( 1to10) | 
| DEST_NAME | VARCHAR2(256) | Log archive destination parameter name | 
| STATUS | VARCHAR2(9) | Identifies the current status of the destination: 
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| BINDING | VARCHAR2(9) | Specifies how failure will affect the archival operation: 
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| NAME_SPACE | VARCHAR2(7) | Identifies the scope of parameter setting: 
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| TARGET | VARCHAR2(7) | Specifies whether the archive destination is local or remote to the primary database: 
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| ARCHIVER | VARCHAR2(10) | Identifies the archiver process relative to the database where the query is issued: 
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| SCHEDULE | VARCHAR2(8) | Indicates whether the archival of this destination is INACTIVE,PENDING,ACTIVE, orLATENT | 
| DESTINATION | VARCHAR2(256) | Specifies the location where the archived redo logs are to be archived | 
| LOG_SEQUENCE | NUMBER | Identifies the sequence number of the last archived redo log to be archived | 
| REOPEN_SECS | NUMBER | Identifies the retry time (in seconds) after error | 
| DELAY_MINS | NUMBER | Identifies the delay interval (in minutes) before the archived redo log is automatically applied to a standby database | 
| MAX_CONNECTIONS | NUMBER | Maximum number of connections | 
| NET_TIMEOUT | NUMBER | Number of seconds the log writer process will wait for status from the network server of a network operation issued by the log writer process | 
| PROCESS | VARCHAR2(10) | Identifies the archiver process relative to the primary database, even if the query is issued on the standby database: 
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| REGISTER | VARCHAR2(3) | Indicates whether the archived redo log is registered in the remote destination control file ( YES) or not (NO). If the archived redo log is registered, it is available to log apply services. | 
| FAIL_DATE | DATE | Date and time of last error | 
| FAIL_SEQUENCE | NUMBER | Sequence number of the archived redo log being archived when the last error occurred | 
| FAIL_BLOCK | NUMBER | Block number of the archived redo log being archived when the last error occurred | 
| FAILURE_COUNT | NUMBER | Current number of contiguous archival operation failures that have occurred for the destination | 
| MAX_FAILURE | NUMBER | Allows you to control the number of times log transport services will attempt to reestablish communication and resume archival operations with a failed destination | 
| ERROR | VARCHAR2(256) | Displays the error text | 
| ALTERNATE | VARCHAR2(256) | Alternate destination, if any | 
| DEPENDENCY | VARCHAR2(256) | Dependent archive destination, if any | 
| REMOTE_TEMPLATE | VARCHAR2(256) | Specifies the template to be used to derive the location to be recorded | 
| QUOTA_SIZE | NUMBER | Destination quotas, expressed in bytes | 
| QUOTA_USED | NUMBER | Size of all the archived redo logs currently residing on the specified destination | 
| MOUNTID | NUMBER | Instance mount identifier | 
| TRANSMIT_MODE | VARCHAR2(12) | Specifies network transmission mode: 
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| ASYNC_BLOCKS | NUMBER | Number of blocks specified for the ASYNCattribute | 
| AFFIRM | VARCHAR2(3) | Specifies disk I/O mode | 
| TYPE | VARCHAR2(7) | Indicates whether the archived log destination definition is PUBLICorPRIVATE. OnlyPUBLICdestinations can be modified at runtime using theALTER SYSTEM SETorALTER SESSION SETstatements. By default, all archived log destinations arePUBLIC. | 
| VALID_NOW | VARCHAR2(16) | Indicates whether the destination is valid right now for archival operations: 
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| VALID_TYPE | VARCHAR2(15) | Redo log type or types that are valid for the destination: 
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| VALID_ROLE | VARCHAR2(12) | Database role or roles that are valid for the destination: 
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| DB_UNIQUE_NAME | VARCHAR2(30) | Unique database name | 
| VERIFY | VARCHAR2(3) | Indicates whether the value of the VERIFYattribute on theLOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_nparameter is verified (YES) or not verified (NO) |