3.7. Summary

In this chapter, you learned about non-critical recovery situations and methods. Non-critical losses are failures that do not impact database operations significantly or for a lengthy period of time. The key to resolving non-critical losses is to understand the correct methods of quickly recovering from the situation.

The non-critical database files that you need to recover are temporary tablespaces, redo log members, index tablespaces, indexes, read-only tablespaces, and password files. This chapter walked you through many examples using these types of database files.

In many cases, recovery is not needed—only rebuilding or altering an existing configuration. It is important to maintain the most current methods of recovering from these situations and save any required information such as scripts or query output. If this information is current and readily available, the non-critical loss can be resolved most efficiently.