I wonder if part of this is that 10g is still fairly new in terms of adoption at many companies and that in many places there is not yet an overriding need for flashback technologies. I think as time goes on this will change as more features take advantage of flashback technologies. Also it's a new technology and it seems that new technologies like Flashback take some time to get integrated into SOP. Cheers! RF Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant/DBA/Author Principal Engineer/Team Manager The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Father of Five, Husband of One, Author of various geeky computer titles from Osborne/McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 11g New Features Now Available for Pre-sales on Amazon.com! Sig V1.1 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Arif Gulzar Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:30 PM To: ag@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: What are the common mistakes DBA do retarding backup & Recovery? Interesting comments by all oracle Gurus, I never saw any body taking advantage of Flashback database in my circle. Flash recovery area, Flashback table,Flashback Drop, query etc all are some sky birds for most companies.... On 7/6/07, Alex Gorbachev <ag@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I remember we asked once to backup a fairly important file to tape. Instead, SA copied the tape device over the file. Boy, I couldn't stop laughing. :D On 7/6/07, Keith Moore <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unix admin had the backup tape writeable and > had the tape drive configured so that when a tape was put in the drive, it was > automatically formatted for the next backup. -- Alex Gorbachev, Oracle DBA Brewer, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex http://blog.oracloid.com BAAG party - www.BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l