How did it go? I've been in situations where the current control files were no longer valid. Sometimes recreating them has been the simplest thing to do. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:23 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 > > >