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Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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>> Not having been there, I wonder whether Mark was slicing the difference >> between Recovery and Restore? >> >> Restoring missing or corrupt files could be relatively simple.
No doubt.
But the simplistic approach would likely be 'bring it back from the backup'. And in this day and age, simplistic seems to please those who have learned to point 'n click to oblivion. After all, why troubleshoot when you can reboot? (http://www.google.com/search?q=air+traffic+shutdown)
>>However recovering database, in all the scenarios possible, is not easy. >> >> Then again, I wonder ... with flashback database ???
Recover to current and then flashback manually, if desired? Advantage - it's recovered and ready to flashback by the time you get back from lunch.
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> Whether Oracle is actually capable of automating anything in this
> subject area or not is really not the issue, however. The real issue
> is: if it can, it probably shouldn't!!
No argument there.
/Hans Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 22:40:56 CDT