Recover from a loss of a temporary tablespace

This article is about a recovery of temporary tablespace. As we know that Temporary tablespaces are used to manage space for database sort operations and for storing global temporary tables. For example, if you join two large tables, and Oracle cannot do the sort in memory (see SORT_AREA_SIZE initialization parameter), space will be allocated in […]

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Recover from a loss of a read-only tablespace

Being an Oracle DBA we are aware that there are many types of backups are available for Oracle database maintenance in the same way we have multiple ways to restore our database. One question raises here that why do we need have a different kind of ways to backup and recovery in Oracle database? Answer of this question […]

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Switchback to the original location of the previously corrupted/damaged datafile

In this article, we are going to have look on How to switch back to the original location of the previously corrupted/damaged/lost/canceled datafile. RMAN> report schema; using target database control file instead of recovery catalog Report of database schema for database with db_unique_name ORCL List of Permanent Datafiles =========================== File Size(MB) Tablespace RB segs Datafile Name […]

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Recover a corrupted/damaged NON-SYSTEM datafile switching to an image copy when database in ARCHIVELOG mode

This article is about recovery of corrupted/damaged/lost/canceled NONSYSTEM datafile switching to an image copy when database in ARCHIVELOG mode. We must have an image copy of my datafiles: The following command is use to take copy. [oracle@localhost orcl]$ rman target / RMAN> backup as copy database; Starting backup at 19-07-2012 07:45:31 using channel ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: […]

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Backup a database in non-archivelog mode without recovery catalog

This article is about the backup of an Oracle database. As DBA we are well known about the types of backup.  Mainly we have two kind of backups in Oracle database first one is physical and another one is logical.  Each type of backups is important in Oracle database’s life maintenance. It depends on projects and client’s requirements that what kind of […]

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