1) Data Unloader.  Takes them forever to admit it exists, but once they
do, it does save your butt (and your database!). Been there, done that.



--- Yechiel Adar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My  worst one was when a datafile autoextend to 4GB boundary and hit
> a bug
> in 8.1.6.
> Then we discovered that the last backup was taken about 3 weeks ago
> due to
> change in tablespaces placing that was not corrected in the backup
> job.
> 
> We did two things in parallel:
> 
> 1) Called Oracle support, got an answer that there is no way to
> recover the
> database. Finally they come with an internal utility that rescued the
> data
> from the database.
> 
> 2) Tried to recover from 3 weeks ago. This failed because some
> archive logs
> were missing.
> 
> Al last we rebuild a new database and loaded the data that oracle
> support
> rescued from the ruined database.
> Also we contacted the application supplier to get a script to find
> how to
> calculate start value for a sequence.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
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