Is the only way to circumvent this problem be to backup immediately after
loads?
Yes, is one reason why I don't like nologging operations in production.
Question: Would flash recovery assist in recovery when datafiles are
deleted or corrupted?
Assuming you mean flashback database: No, as it relies on regular transactions, if the files no longer can be read or written, flashback database cannot use them either.
Stefan
We had a database with some tablespaces marked as nologging
Sys admin. copied files from backup on top of those files (hot backup)
Tablespaces with "nologging" complianed about needing media recovery.
Is the only way to circumvent this problem be to backup immediately after loads?
Question: Would flash recovery assist in recovery when datafiles are deleted or corrupted?
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