Commands

To flush the shared pool use:

    ALTER SYSTEM FLUSH SHARED_POOL;

In Oracle 10.1 and above, the following supported command can be used to flush the buffer cache:

    ALTER SYSTEM FLUSH BUFFER_CACHE;

In Oracle 9.0.1 and above the following unsupported command can also be used to flush the buffer cache:

    ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name flush_cache';

After this command has been executed, the STATE column for all rows in X$BH will be zero unless the block is currently pinned

In Oracle 9.2.0.1 (Windows 2000) the equivalent ORADEBUG command fails with ORA-3113

To force a checkpoint use

    ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT;

To force a logfile switch use

    ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;

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