5.5. Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Flashback Database in detail. The Flashback Database is a new Oracle 10g solution that is best used to recover from logical corruption and user error. This is a new alternative to incomplete recovery or the Log Miner utility. The Flashback Database can be enabled and configured fairly easily. You must have the flash recovery area enabled to implement the Flashback Database.

You also learned how to use Enterprise Manager (EM) to enable and configure the Flashback Database and how to use the EM Perform Recovery capability by initiating the Recovery Wizard to perform a Flashback Database recovery. Monitoring of the Flashback Database can be performed through several dynamic views, which we covered in detail.