Re: Recovery scenario

  • From: "Pedro Espinoza" <raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:25:47 -0500

On Feb 1, 2008 1:28 PM, Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The presence of a long-running transaction before, during and after the
> period of a backup would have no bearing on the archivelog requirements for
> the recovery of that backup.  Backups consist of data blocks, and capture
> the physical state of the database, without regard to the state of
> transactions.  The inclusion of the UNDO_TABLESPACE or rollback segments in
> the backup allows transactions that are incomplete at the time the recovered
> database is opened to be rolled back.


Thanks for this clarification. And yes, my response was incorrect.
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