You may like the Tablespace Point-In-Time Recovery in Oracle8.
Malcolm Dunnett <dunnett_at_mala.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> I have an Oracle 7.3.2.3 database. The database is being run
> in archivelog mode. A user messed up some tables
> and would like to restore them to the state they were in before his
> changes. All his tables are in a specific tablespace, no other users
> have data in that tablespace. I have a backup copy of the tablespace.
> If I take the tablespace offline and replace the datafile with the
> backup copy Oracle insists on doing media recovery on the tablespace
> when I try to bring the restored file back on-line. I don't want this
> in this case because this would just reapply the errors. Is there any way
> to tell it not to do that? It appears the alternative is to restore
> the entire database from the backup and use a cancel-based or
> time-based recovery. What I'd like to do is a time-based recovery of
> just the affected tablespace, but this does not appear to be an option.
> If I shut down the instance, restored just this tablespace and then
> restarted with resetlogs (ie without RECOVERING) would evil things happen?
>
> ps. From now on I'll be taking exports of the database as well as
> tablespace backups so I'll be able to import specific tables when this
> situation next occurs.
>
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> Malcolm Dunnett Malaspina University-College Email:
dunnett_at_mala.bc.ca
> Computer Services Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA V9R 5S5 Tel: (250)755-8738
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Received on Wed Mar 24 1999 - 01:53:11 CST
