My apologies, you are correct. I wasnąt paying close enough attention to
the statement. Sorry to spread my confusion.
On 4/19/06 11:09 AM, Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:
>> > Contrary to its syntax, this command does not actually backup the
>> > controlfile. Rather, it creates a trace file with the commands to recreate
>> > the controlfile.
>
> Incorrect!
>
> Backup and Recovery Concepts Release 2(9.2)
>
> The SQL statement ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE makes a binary backup of
> the control file.
> The SQL statement ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE exports the
> control file contents to a SQL script file. You can use the script to create a
> new control file. Trace file backups have one major disadvantage: they contain
> no records of archived redo logs, offline ranges for datafiles, and RMAN
> backups and copies. For this reason, binary backups are preferable
>
>
> Regards,
> Dimitre
>
Jason Heinrich
Oracle Database Administrator
Pensacola Christian College
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Received on Wed Apr 19 2006 - 11:12:46 CDT
