Re: Recovering past a datafile addition

Neil Cudd wrote:
>
> If I take an online backup at time-point A then add a datafile to a
> tablespace at time-point B (taking a backup of the controlfile before and
> afterwards) what exactly is the procedure for recovering past the point at
> which the datafile was added (take as granted I have restored all datafiles
> that were backup up at time A) ? How does the physical file get created ?

I assume that the "ALTER TABLESPACE ADD DATAFILE..." statement would be in the archive log, along with all the other changes made to the database...Maybe someone else who has actually done a recovery like this can confirm?
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