Academic question to online files or database to experienced users/admins.

From: Ric <wolf_at_wondersoft.de>
Date: 10 Oct 2002 04:27:23 -0700
Message-ID: <abb2933c.0210100327.13fe257a@posting.google.com>

In Oracle Doc (Oracle 8i Utilities Release 2 (8.1.6) A76955-02 you find this to sentences, following directly one after the other: Start Doc:
DBVERIFY is an external command-line utility that performs a physical data structure integrity check on an offline database. It can be used against backup files and online files (or pieces of files).
End Doc.

So what? I do not understand.
Sentence One does say the database must be offline, doesn't it?

Sentence Two says, the datafile can be online.

Can a Data file be online with the Database beeing offline?

Please give a clue or help me to interpret because a DBA here says this two
sentences means that DBVERIFY is not a offline tool.

Note that the header of the doc is:

DBVERIFY: Offline Database Verification Utility.

Thank you in advance Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 06:27:23 CDT