Using Oracle Flashback Features

The final section of this chapter includes exercises that provide you with some fundamental experience using a couple of Oracle's Flashback recovery features: Flashback Drop and Flashback Table. These features are useful when you need to recover data lost due to logical data errors or corruptions rather than physical storage problems.

EXERCISE 9.25: Restore a Dropped Table Using Oracle Flashback Drop

This exercise teaches you how to recover from an all-to-common problem: someone has mistakenly dropped a table. Rather than perform a complicated database recovery operation to restore the lost table, you can use Oracle's Flashback Drop feature. As explained in the section "Logical Errors and Oracle Flashback" earlier ...

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