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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 | 
| DEST_ID | NUMBER | Log archive destination parameter   identifier (1   to 10) | 
| 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, or LATENT | 
| 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) | Reserved for future use | 
| 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   ASYNC   attribute | 
| AFFIRM | VARCHAR2(3) | Specifies disk I/O mode | 
| TYPE | VARCHAR2(7) | Indicates whether the archived log   destination definition is PUBLIC or PRIVATE. Only PUBLIC destinations can be modified at runtime using the ALTER SYSTEM SET   or ALTER SESSION SET   statements. By default, all archived log destinations are PUBLIC. | 
| 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   VERIFY   attribute on the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameter is verified (YES) or not verified (NO) | 
| COMPRESSION | VARCHAR2(7) | Indicates whether network   compression is ENABLED or DISABLED. | 
Note:
1.       Scripts using V$ARCHIVE_DEST
| --show archive destination select dest_name, status, binding, name_space, target,   archiver,         schedule,   destination, log_sequence, reopen_secs,         delay_mins, TYPE    from     V$ARCHIVE_DEST order by 2 desc,1; | 
| select dest_name, status, type,   database_mode, recovery_mode, protection_mode,        destination, applied_seq#, error  from   V$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS  order by 2 desc; | 
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| Last updated: 2009-11-24 Tuesday | 
 
