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Purging Database Buffers

The PURGE option does the following:

• Writes database buffers associated with an area to the database if they have been changed since last written.
• Clears the buffers.

The DBA for a system, accessing an area whose status is retrieval, might issue this command in order to gain access to updates made by another system.