Interesting question. Should be easy enough to test with a dummy DB. I'll try it out tonight if I get time. Don. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Chitale, Hemant K <Hemant-K.Chitale@xxxxxx>wrote: > 10g and 11g environments. > > Let's say that a Hot Backup of the Database runs from 9pm to 1130pm. > > We then, beginning at midnight, clone the database (from the backup) to > another server. The clone runs till 330am. The clone is then OPENed with > RESETLOGS. > > We realise that we need to "undo" some transactions executed in the source > database at 10pm --- but the "undo" (i.e. flashback query or flashback > transaction or flashback table) is to be done only in the clone. > > Assume that undo_retention is 3hours. > > Can we use flashback query/transaction/table in the cloned environment > after the resetlogs ? > > Can we be sure that Oracle doesn't "expire" the undo extents (as > significant time has elapsed between 10pm and 330am) ? > > What if undo_retention is 8hours ? > > What if the clone to the new server was done 12 hours later (in both > undo_retention 3hours and 8hours scenarios) ? > > Hemant K Chitale > > Senior Product Specialist > > GTO - TSD - Group Functions (Finance) > > Standard Chartered Bank > > 7 Changi Business Park Crescent > > Singapore 486028 > > > > This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies > and notify the sender immediately. You may wish to refer to the > incorporation details of Standard Chartered PLC, Standard Chartered Bank > and their subsidiaries at https://www.sc.com/en/incorporation-details.html > . > -- Don Seiler http://www.seiler.us