The Users server process is the process that handles the users requests to the oracle database.
When the user requests a add, update or delete of data in the database, the server process modifies the data from the buffer cache, not the actual data files.
The DBWR (Database Writer) process is the only process that writes to the data files.
Here is the process by which data is modified in the Oracle database:
If the operation is an Insert:
Space found in a block in buffer cache.
Data inserted into that block buffer.
If the operation is an Update or a Delete:
The data is read, either from the buffer cache or the data files and if from the datafiles, it is placed in the buffer.
The data is deleted or modified in the buffer cache.
A copy of the origional data written to the UNDO tablespace in case it is needed for a rollback or for read consistency.
Once the data is modified in the Buffer Cache, a log file is written to the Redo log.
Once the Redo log is written out, the change is considered complete.
Later…the DBWR writes the changed blocks to the datafiles.
The DBWR is the only process that can write to datafiles but the Server Processes can read form them.
