Re: RMAN for other cases than total disaster?

>Its more for "why should an developer care about rman?" (be happy about ;-)

Real happy for when the newbie blows your data away.

Also can be useful for things like duplicating the production db to somewhere you can play with it, resetting development data to a known quantity, and all the things Mark mentioned apply as much to a development database as to a production database. As Tom Kyte has pointed out many times, to a developer the development database _is_ a production database. (Whether transactional recovery needs to or even can apply to such a database is site dependent, of course).

jg

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