You folks are awesome. I restored it with flashback tablename to before drop. I checked the recyclebin after i dropped it but did not realize that i was supposed to check dba_recyclebin rather was digging deep into logminer. Good learning. Thanks all. I just love this wonderful mailing list. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > > Recycle Bin should be enabled by default, unless you have explicitly > disabled it. Have you tried using: > > flashback table <x> to before drop; > > If the table is still in the recycle bin, it should just "un-drop." > > Log Miner won't really help, since the actual rows were not deleted. The > DDL changes may be there, but you're on your own trying to put Humpty > Dumpty back together again that way. It is certainly a lot more convoluted > than just un-dropping the table. > > -- > Jeremiah Wilton > http://www.bluegecko.net > > On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:57 AM, sundar mahadevan wrote: > > > Good day. yesterday i dropped a table accidentally on staging database > > (11gSE1 Rel 2 on SLES 10 on no archive log mode and no flash recovery > > enabled) and we do not have any backups to recover. > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l