I don't do alot of recoveries, so when I need to do something, I always end up googling it. So I want to write myself some notes for some of the basic scenarios. Here is my list so far. I keep notes of activities I don't use very often. So I don't have to look them up again. all of these assume I can use RMAN 1. full recovery(with and without archivelog mode) 2. point in time recovery 3. flashback database 4. lost a redo log(both online and offline, with multiple redo log groups or without) 5. lost a datafile 6. restore control file 7. restore spfile 8. someone drops a table, so flash back table -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l