Jeremy,As promised by me at http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com/2007/05/recovery-in-cold-backup.html to explain what I had hinted at about doing a RollForward in my Oracle-L posting
(//www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/05-2007/msg00440.html) here is a worked-example of a RollForward "Recovery" from a Cold Backup http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com/2007/05/rollforward-from-cold-backup.html Also as an example of when knowledge of the actual SQL commands for Recovery are important, rather than relying on RMAN alone. I generally prefer RMAN for RESTORE commands but SQL for RECOVER commands ! Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital and http://hemantscribbles.blogspot.com and http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" !" Mohandas Gandhi Quotes : http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html
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