Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration: From Novice to Professional

CHAPTER 13Recovery

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 will now turn your attention to repairing the database if it gets damaged. For the purposes of this chapter, you should assume the availability of backup copies made using Recovery ...