Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:53:27 -0700 From: DA Morgan Organization: Puget Sound Oracle Users Group User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Crash/instance recovery References: <468fb819$0$21665$426a34cc@news.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <468fb819$0$21665$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1183830806.165537@bubbleator.drizzle.com> Cache-Post-Path: bubbleator.drizzle.com!unknown@216.162.218.178 X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@csolutions.net Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:430731 X-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:53:26 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) 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. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org