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Vaughan Castine wrote:
>
> Would I be correct in assuming that once a dataabse has been shutdown
> (either normal or immediate) the archive logs can be deleted?
Technically Yes. That is, you can start up the database without needing
the archivelogs.
However, if your database crashes and if you have to do a media
recovery, using previous backups, you're at loss.
Nat. Received on Tue Feb 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CST