RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

John,

You listed as an urban myth:

> * You *have* to take a COLD backup of the database after using
resetlogs.
> (Not required - a Hot backup and archive logs is adequate. All hot
backups /
> archive logs prior to that are invalid, though...)

Consider the following:

Time:

t0: database restored
t1: database opened with RESETLOGS
t2: hot backup started ( database in archive log mode )
t3: users input very important transactions
t4: database crashes, and must be restored

How will you recover the transactions from time t3?

Jared

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