Re: Applying redo - recovery fundamentals

I'd like to thank all the folks who responded. Ive learned allot through this exercise

Thank you for your time and feedback!

Shannon St. Dennis wrote:

> by copying over the redo logs.... you've lost all records of that
> table being created,.
>
> you need the current control files, current redo logs, and old data
> files in order to recover to a point before the table was created, but
> after the cold backup was taken.
>
> by recovering all files,including redo logs, you've essentially put
> the entire database back to where it was when the cold backup was taken.

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