Re: Crash/instance recovery

astalavista wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the difference between crash recovery and instance recovery ?
>
> Thanks for your lights ...

You can not recover an instance ... an instance is processes in memory.

You mean database recovery and they may or may not be the same in that there are more reasons to recover a database than just following a crash.

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