Re: no archivelog incomplete recovery?

You need to recover to be able to open the database with resetlogs.

Stefan

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Paul Drake <bdbafh_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, John Smith <john40855_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am studying for the OCP, and one of the practice test questions is how
>> to recover from a lost active online redo log in noarchivelog mode. the
>> answer they give is to restore a consistent backup, startup in mount mode,
>> perform a cancel based recovery, and open with resetlogs.
>>
>> Is that answer correct? I didnt think you could do a recovery if you
>> arent in archivelog mode.
>>
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>
> Hmm.
> If the backup were consistent (a cold backup of a database in noarchivelog
> mode, or an rman backup while the database is in a mount state) then no
> recovery would be required.
> One could force recovery, telling it that the controlfile was a backup
> controlfile (even if it was not).
> But if no archived redo logs (or online redo logs) are being applied, then
> what is the point of performing a cancel-based recovery?
>
> Paul
>
>

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