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How To Recover Tables to a Specified Point in Time

Starting from 12c, RMAN allows to perform a Table Point In Time Recovery (PITR).On earlier releases, this was only possible by manually creating a point in time clone of the database and extracting the data via datapump.With this “new” feature, life gets easier. SETUP:For this task we are assuming you have your DB/ARCHIVE log backups... » read more

RMAN: HOW TO REFRESH a DB from backup

Lets suppose you have been requested to refresh a TEST/DEV Database and you don’t have access to the source DB, just access to the backups someone created. In this case, this is a Windows environment and we are going to assume the following information: DB and Archive log backups located under: “D:\RMAN\Backup\”Control file backup to... » read more