Re: exp and archive available.... recover table

joel garry wrote:

> Come on, guys, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/glossary.htm#sthref879
> , you can search the metalink knowledgebase for "logical backup" with
> the quotes. If you are going to argue semantics, you need to account
> for Oracle's usage. And you need to tell me what is the magical thing
> I do that lets me keep table data so I can get it back after I wipe it
> out.
>
> jg
> --

And with that I have written the authors of that document, and others, and asked them to fix it to clearly indicate what a "logical backup" can and can not be used to do.

The sad truth is that the sloppy usage of the word "backup" when referring to exports has led a lot of people to think they can not use RMAN. And the team of writers responsible for the documentation, I hope, will carefully craft a warning every time they use the term "restore" to clearly indicate the extreme limitations of export and DataPump in that regard.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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