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Quite often when considering RMAN restore performance, the first thing that springs to mind is the speed of the tape device, the media manag

Step 1: Identify the corrupt blocks Populate the v$database_block_corruption view with  information of all the corrupted blocks by executin

The purpose of this article is to explain how to set up different catalogs in the same database and manage all Oracle release database bac

An rman backup spawns many processes and when a backup is taking a long time to complete it can be difficult to determine the cause.  This n

Scripts to check backup status and timings of database backups - This script will be run in the database, not the catalog.   Login as sysdba - This script will report on all backups – full, increm