Category: RMAN Recovery Scenarios

RMAN  performs backup and recovery tasks on the databases and automates administration of the backup strategies. It greatly simplifies backing up, restoring, and recovering database files.…

Every Oracle Database has a control file as one of its important file. It is a small binary file that records the physical structure of the database.

The control file includes:

– Database name
– Names and locations of associated datafiles and redo log files
– The timestamp of the database creation
– The current log sequence number
– Checkpoint information