Minimizing archive log generation

It is not impossible for a database to generate large amounts of redo logs even though the database may not be that large. The amount of redo generation is determined by the volume of data change in the database. To illustrate this, assume that I issue the following command:

UPDATE scott.emp SET lname=UPPER(lname);

So the big question to be answered is to determine what large changes are happening in your instance. Luckily, you can mine your archived redo logs to see if one or two tables are undergoing more changes than other tables. Chapter 9 of the Administrator's Guide is titled Using LogMiner to Analyze Redo Logs. This document contains the instructions you'll need to mine your archived redo logs to get an idea of the changes occurring in your database.