Beginning Oracle Database 12c Administration: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

CHAPTER 13

Recovery

These Officers, with the Men belonging to the Engine, at their Quarterly Meetings, discourse of Fires, of the Faults committed at some, the good Management in some Cases at others, and thus communicating their Thoughts and Experience they grow wise in the Thing, and know how to command and to execute in the best manner upon every Emergency.

—Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, following a disastrous fire in Philadelphia in the 18th century

In the previous chapter, you learned how to make backup copies of the database. You now turn your attention to repairing the database if it gets damaged. For the purposes ...