Maureen, sounds like you had multiplexed controlfiles already but overwrote both of them with your script. Can you share how this was done? I know you said a cp command was used but wondering what your process is for the standby creation. Are you just mounting NFS shares from the standby host and copying files from the prod/primary host? And, like many others have said, don't let it get you down. Just important that we learn and improve from these experiences, however soul-crushing they feel at the time. Don. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:40 PM, George Leonard - Business Connexion < George.Leonard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maureen > > In the end we all scr3w3d up at some point, it's only if we man/woman... > enough to fess up. > > No one ever learns anything in a perfect world, we humans learn best by > mistakes and then making sure we don't make them (our own) and hopefully > lesson's taught to us by others from their experience again. > > :) > > And then hopefully we all as a community can laugh afterwords together, > because if you can't laugh at yourself, what good is anything. > > Yours Sincerely > > ________________________________________ > *George Leonard* > *Oracle Engineered System Specialist* > > Mobile: +27.82 655 2466 > eMail: george.leonard@xxxxxxxxx <george.leonard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Web: http://www.bcx.com <george.leonard@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On 18 Jul 2014, at 8:26 PM, Maureen English <maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Tim, rest of list, > > THANK YOU! > > I was ready to start cleaning out my desk after realizing what I did. My > manager, though, was concerned about what > to tell the users and letting our director know what had happened. Our > director, someone I've worked with for almost > 20 years, always remains calm and offered some suggestions for quick fixes > since he was a DBA years ago. Our CITO, > someone I expected to be very upset, responded with something like > 'Mistakes happen, you're only human.' > > - Maureen > > > On 7/17/2014 3:28 PM, Tim Gorman wrote: > > Maureen, > > About 4 years ago, or 26 years into my IT career, I dropped an index on a > 60 Tb table with 24,000 hourly partitions; > the index was over 15 Tb in size. It was the main table in that > production application, of course. > > Over a quarter century of industry experience as a developer, production > support, systems administrator, and database > administrator; if that's not enough time to have important lessons pounded > into one's head, then how much time is needed? > > My supervisor at the time was amazing. After the shock of watching it all > happen and still not quite believing it had > happened, I called him at about 9pm local time, and told him what > occurred. I finished speaking, and waited for the axe > to drop, for the entirely-justified anger to crash down on my head. He > was silent for about 3 seconds, then just said > calmly, "Well, I guess we need to fix it." And that was it. No anger, no > recriminations, no humiliating > micro-management. We launched straight into planning what needed to > happen to fix it. > > He got to work notifying the organization what had happened, and I got > started on the rebuild, which eventually took > almost 2 weeks to complete. > > I hope you had the same experience. Because it truly happens to all of > us. And anyone who pretends otherwise simply > hasn't been doing important work. > > Hope this helps... > > -Tim > > > > > On 7/17/14, 17:01, Maureen English wrote: > > I ended up recovering the database from a backup done the day before and > rolling forward. > > I also modified my instructions for recreating a standby database. Instead > of 'cp -p' to copy > my standby control file to the appropriate directory on the standby > server, I will now use 'cp -pi'. > > I'm still feeling badly for making this mistake, but I'm amazed at how > understanding my coworkers > have been. > > - Maureen > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- Don Seiler http://www.seiler.us