Incomplete recovery in Oracle 10g

Question

hello,
I have been trying Incomplete recovery in oracle 10g. The steps i did were.
1. Set the database in archivelog mode.
2. shutdown immediate
3. Take physical copies of control files, datafiles and redo files
4. open the database.
5. Insert three rows in test table and commit. (and note the time )
6. shutdown abort
7. copy the restored datafiles to the desired location
8. startup mount
9 recover database until time (the time noted in step 5)
10. alter database open resetlogs
After doing this, i still do not get the three records inserted in step 5.
Can anyone suggest why this is so ? am i missing something. ?
Thanx.
Trupti

Answer 1

Hello,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
I did what you suggested. Here are the output.
16:17:52 SQL> select * from testing.test;
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17:09:26 SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
*** Here i took a backup of all files.
17:10:16 SQL> startup mount;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 167772160 bytes
Fixed Size 788224 bytes
Variable Size 66058496 bytes
Database Buffers 100663296 bytes
Redo Buffers 262144 bytes
Database mounted.
17:13:45 SQL> alter database open;
Database altered.
17:14:07 SQL> alter system switch logfile;
System altered.
17:14:17 SQL> select * from testing.test;
NO
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17:14:25 SQL> insert into testing.test values(5);
1 row created.
17:14:40 SQL> insert into testing.test values(6);
1 row created.
17:14:43 SQL> insert into testing.test values(7);
1 row created.
17:14:45 SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
17:14:47 SQL> alter system switch logfile;
System altered.
17:14:50 SQL> insert into testing.test values(8);
1 row created.
17:14:55 SQL> insert into testing.test values(9);
1 row created.
17:14:57 SQL> insert into testing.test values(10);
1 row created.
17:15:00 SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
17:15:02 SQL> alter system switch logfile;
System altered.
17:15:04 SQL> shutdown abort;
ORACLE instance shut down.
*** Here i restored the datafiles
17:15:15 SQL> startup mount;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 167772160 bytes
Fixed Size 788224 bytes
Variable Size 66058496 bytes
Database Buffers 100663296 bytes
Redo Buffers 262144 bytes
Database mounted.
17:18:09 SQL> recover database until time '2004-12-05:17:14:45';
ORA-00279: change 402561 generated at 12/05/2004 17:10:03 needed for thread 1
ORA-00289: suggestion :
G:\ORACLE10G\ORADATA\NEWTEST\ARCHIVE\ARC00002_0544119450.001
ORA-00280: change 402561 for thread 1 is in sequence #2
17:18:43 Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
Log applied.
Media recovery complete.
17:19:20 SQL>
17:19:51 SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
Database altered.
17:20:33 SQL> select * from testing.test;
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