Re: Best way to restore database back to previous point in time

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:14:45 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2014.03.22.22.14.45_at_gmail.com>

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:31:39 +1100, Noons wrote:

> On 22/03/2014 2:18 PM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>

>> ever since. The technology itself hasn't changed much, it still uses
>> "ALTER DATABASE BEGIN/END BACKUP". Sad truth is that rman doesn't have
>> a snapshot API.

>
> Read somewhere that it is either in 12c or the next one.
> About bloody time rman recognizes what everyone else is doing...
> The other one that apparently is in 12c (haven't checked it, so I say
> "apparently") is the consistent restore of a single table with PIT
> recovery. Kinda neat!

The motivation for talking about implementing a snapshot API comes from the competition. DB2 10 has a snapshot API. DB2 v10 is a big problem for Oracle, because it's comparable feature by feature, at half the price.

http://tinyurl.com/ltqxkcg

Despite the fact that IBM sales force is doing less than stellar job with pushing DB2 to Unix and Windows, I see more and more DB2 in the data centers. The price difference works on its own merit.

-- 
Mladen Gogala
The Oracle Whisperer
http://mgogala.byethost5.com

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