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This solution-oriented resource, revised for Oracle8, focuses exclusively on issues related to backup and recovery. It begins with a background discussion on Oracle's architecture, then delves into topics such as: backup principles - physical and logical backups, backup commands; backup scripts - specific scripts to run in a VMS or UNIX environment; recovery principles and methods; and diagnostic tools and debugging techniques. This edition includes a set of backup and recovery techniques and ten new case studies, which should nearly double the case-study section in page count. The case studies cover issues such as tablespace, point-in-time recovery, recovering an altered table and recovering a partitioned table.