Re: Ora8 NT problem

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: 1998/03/09
Message-ID: <6e0rcr$7gs$1@hermes.is.co.za>#1/1

Joel Garry wrote in message <6dq7nm$7e8$1_at_pebble.ml.org>...
>
>But seriously, you created the controlfile before recovering the db.
>See "Roll Forward" in the Oracle Press Backup book - you probably
completely
>confused Oracle as to which checkpoint SCN's were looked at.

How can you get your database up without having a control file containing the list of all the datafiles? The init.ora file only contains the paths for dumps and traces and the name of the controlfile. If you use recover, how would it know what to recover?

regards,
Billy Received on Mon Mar 09 1998 - 00:00:00 CST