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"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
>
> So resetlogs are EXCEEDINGLY expensive. To the point where the only time
> you'd ever want to use an incomplete recovery is when everything else has
> failed.
>
> Incompletes are very rare events. They are awkward, difficult to perform,
> and at the mercy of Sod's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will"). You
> don''t want to go there unless absolutely necessary.
I snipped plenty of good advice/description, all of which I agree with. My only contribution to the above would be to not color incomplete recoveries in such a dark light. They certainly aren't your first choice usually, but they aren't the end of the world and, IMO, aren't much more awkward/difficult than a complete recovery. But that's more opinion than fact.
> But if you do, it's not a sweat. Oracle copes. There's not a recovery
> situation it *can't* cope with, one way or another. Which sounds like
> marketing bullshit but (and here's the true majesty of the product) isn't.
:) One of the reasons I like B&R so much... it just works.
Regards,
Sean M
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 23:07:11 CDT