Re: Oracle Recovery Scenarios

My favorite recovery scenario is where a well-meaning sys admin gzipped all of our datafiles on a running 817 instance becuase disk space was at a premium. I learned a little that day and the next time she did it I was better prepared!

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"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3f4529e0$0$4186$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
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> "Michael Lackey" <mlackey_at_illuminet.com> wrote in message
> > Had a bad CPU board once that rebooted the server several times before
> > it was finally fixed. In each case, it trashed all three copies of
> > the control file. I have real good notes on how to recover with a
> > backup control file :).
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> Yeah, it can happen. In which case, backup controlfile to trace is your
> friend, and you still don't need a flowchart... how many flowcharts do you
> need to explain how to run a sql script??!
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> ;-)
> Regards
> HJR
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Received on Fri Aug 22 2003 - 12:09:42 CDT