or if you are lucky and still have the undo from the relevant period create table temptab as select * from user_table as of 'before the deletion'; then verify the contents of temptab before an insert select. flashback query is a good thing! Niall On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Ingrid Voigt <giantpanda@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > a complete recovery will restore the state of your > database to the current time - after the table > deletion. > > You need to do tablespace point in time recovery, > see the Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide. > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmtspit.htm > > This is tricky, you might want to do a point in time > recovery of your whole database instead. > > > Regards > Ingrid > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:47:54 +0100 > > Von: David Pintor <painterman@xxxxxxxxx> > > An: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Betreff: Complete recovery > > > Hi guys, > > > > ** Oracle 10.2 on Solaris 10 box. > > > > Someone removed a user table this morning. I have a cold backup from last > > night. I want to restore just the USERS tablespace (where the table was) > > and > > perform a complete recovery. Is that possible? I've tried recovering the > > datafile by stopping the database, copying the datafile manually, and > then > > doing a recover database. The recover is complete but my table is still > > missing... what am I doing wrong? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > David > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info