Database failures

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Oracle 11g for Dummies
Chris Zeis, Chris Ruel and Michael Wessler
( http://www.wileyindia.com/)

Two types of recoveries

Many types of failures can befall your database. For example, a user may accidentally remove a file, or drop a table, or corrupt data, write Chris Zeis, Chris Ruel and Michael Wessler in Oracle 11g for Dummies. “Recovery Manager (or RMAN) is Oracle’s backup and recovery solution to protect the files in your database.

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