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