Relax first :) Stress can make things worse. Follow the steps in the documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642/osadvsce.htm#BRADV90042 Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com - Specialists in Performance, RAC and EBS Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com/ Oracle ACE Director and OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.com/> Co-author of the books: Expert Oracle Practices <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-oracle-practices/>, Pro Oracle SQL, <http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8> <http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8>Expert RAC Practices 12c. <http://tinyurl.com/expert-rac-12c> Expert PL/SQL practices <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices> <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Maureen English <maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > I just did one of the stupidest things in my life and overwrote our > production > database control files with a copy of the standby controlfile. > > I have a backup of the real control files from yesterday afternoon, but > we've > been up and running all day. Is there an easy way to recover my control > files > and be back running any time soon? > > - Maureen > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >
