Oracle in a Nutshell

Parameters

AUTOMATIC

Causes Oracle to automatically determine the names of the redo log files to apply during recovery.

FROM directory

Specifies the directory in which archived redo log files can be found.

LOGFILE filename

Begins recovery using the specified archived redo log file.

TEST

Performs a trial recovery in which redo is read and applied in memory, but in which the database files themselves are left untouched.

ALLOW blocks CORRUPTION

Specifies the number of corrupt blocks to tolerate in the logfiles being applied during recovery. You can exceed only one block when also using the TEST option.

PARALLEL [ degree ]

Specifies that recovery be done in parallel and optionally the degree of parallelism to use. The default degree of parallelism is the number of CPUs available on all instances multiplied by the value of the PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU initialization parameter.

NOPARALLEL

Specifies that the recovery be done serially.

CONTINUE [DEFAULT]

Continue an interrupted multi-instance recovery. Use CONTINUE DEFAULT to have Oracle determine the next logfile to apply.

CANCEL

Terminate cancel-based recovery.

STANDBY DATABASE

Recovers the standby database using control and archived redo log files from the primary database.

DATABASE

Initiates media recovery on the entire database. The database must be mounted but not open.

TABLESPACE tablespace

Initiates media recovery on the specified tablespace or list of tablespaces (up to a maximum of 16). The tablespace(s) must be offline, and the database must be ...