Re: Recover an unrecoverable database

no urban legend as Rachel has had to use it, the catch is they come in, load the software, do the unloading and remove it before they leave.

oh and its EXPENSIVE.

joe

Steve Perry wrote:

>If you can't recover it, Oracle has, or had, a utility called DUL (Data
>UnLoader ???) that will read the datafiles and create files usable by
>sqlldr.
>I haven't used it, but I heard about it several times.
>It's still urban legend until I get a copy :)
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>Anybody have a copy I can borrow for AIX or NT???
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>Steve
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>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:54 PM
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>>I have a colleague working the 'Official' approach with Oracle support. I
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>am
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>>not certain what he will learn nor how quickly, so I'm taking the shotgun
>>approach.
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>>Dan
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>>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:26 PM
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>>Cc: 'Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com'
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>>Dan - May be a good Oracle Support question. I've had pretty good luck
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>>them on really challenging recoveries. My suggestion would be to try
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>again.
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>>Load the files again from tape, but allow recovery when the database comes
>>up. Since the database was shutdown abort, Oracle will want to
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>automatically
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>>recover the database when it tries to start. The recovery information is
>>probably in the redo logs (good reason to back them up).
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>>Dennis Williams
>>DBA
>>Lifetouch, Inc.
>>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com <mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:19 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>>Here's the scenario - A backup was done of a database that had been
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>shutdown
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>>with the abort option. The redo logs (no archiving) are also backed up.
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>The
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>>controlfiles have since been lost.
>>Business request - Retrieve a schema that has since been dropped from the
>>database.
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>>Attempted solution - restore the backups, open the db without performing
>>recovery (resetlogs and readonly corruption allowed). Unfortunately, this
>>resulted in an ORA-00600 when it attempted to read the SYSTEM datafile.
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>>Does anyone have any ideas of how to open this db so we can get the data
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>out
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>>of the schema? We don't care if it is not consistent.
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>>All assistance is appreciated.
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