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Recovering the primary database's datafile using the physical standby, and vice versa (Doc ID 453153.1)

Last updated on JULY 04, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.5 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

How to recover the primary database's datafile using a copy of a standby database's datafile.

and

How to recover the standby database's datafile using a copy of a primary database's datafile.

Important

Before replacing a datafile with a copy from either production or standby, please confirm that all archivelogs are available for full recovery of this datafile. It is also important to ensure that the source is corruption-free. Run DBV or RMAN validate to check for corruption.

a) dbv must return with zero corrupted pages

 

Solution

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In this Document
Goal
 Important
Solution
 Recovering the Primary's Datafile
 Recovering the Standby's Datafile
 9i Restriction
References

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