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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

BLOCKRECOVER

Synopsis

BLOCKRECOVER 
[DEVICE TYPE deviceSpecifier
 [, deviceSpecifier]...] 
blockSpec [blockSpec]... [blockOption [blockOption]...];

blockSpec := 
{ DATAFILE datafileSpec BLOCK integer [, integer ...] 
| TABLESPACE tablespace_name DBA integer [, integer ...] 
| CORRUPTION LIST
}
blockOption :=
{ FROM { BACKUPSET | DATAFILECOPY }
| FROM TAG [=] [']tag_name[']
| RESTORE until
}

Allows for a fine-grained level of recovery by specifying a small list of corrupt blocks rather than an entire datafile. This option is available only for Oracle9i.

Keywords

BLOCK integer

Specifies the block(s) that require recovery.

DBA

Specifies the data block address of a block to recover.

CORRUPTION LIST

Recovers blocks that are listed in the dictionary views V$COPY_CORRUPTION and V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION.

FROM

Specifies that restoration should be from either a backup set or a datafile copy.

FROM TAG tag_name

Specifies the backup set that needs to be restored and from which you want to perform block-level recovery.

RESTORE until

Specifies that backup sets created before a given time are to be restored

Common keywords and clauses: datafileSpec, deviceSpecifier, tablespace_name, tag_name, until.

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