Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples
by Raul F. Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia F. Qi, Dwaine R. Snow
13.7. Recovering a Dropped Table
You may accidentally drop a table that has data you still need. To recover such a table, you can perform a database restore operation, followed by a database roll forward operation to a Point In Time before the table was dropped. However, all of the changes you made after the table was dropped are lost. Moreover, this process may be time-consuming if the database is large, and your data will be unavailable during recovery.
DB2 offers a dropped table recovery feature that makes recovering a dropped table easier. This feature lets you recover your dropped table data using table space-level restore and roll forward operations. This is faster than database-level recovery, and your database remains available to users. ...
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