A question on forums.oracle.com asked: can we recover a database further in time then the time of backup of the last controlfile. Nice question…my gut feeling immediately says : YES we can. But…I do not have a proof of it, and one quick search on the internet did not supply a adequate answer. So…then I […]
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A few recipes I like to go through: Restore and recover a database as far as we can go Restore and recover a database up to a point in time Restore and recover a database when datafiles are awol. Restore and recover a database when the controlfiles are missing Restore and recover a database when […]
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Something went wrong…we need the database back to the point we have archivelogs of: List incarnation (just to see what we have…no actual need to) Restore database (getting the datafiles back in place) Recover database (creating an actual working database with all updates we can possibly find in the archives) Open the database (and start […]
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