Can not recover table from rman backup

Question

For testing I want to recover deleted table from rman backup.
I have make vm of oracle 11g.  the following step i have applied but could not recover the table.
rman> backup database ;
On sqlplus create login as scott/tiger
create table scott.emp1(col1 varchar2(10));
insert into emp1(col1) value('Yasir ') ;
commit ;
select * from emp1 ;
it shows me one row successfully.
Now i have login the  sys as sysdba
sqlplus> alter system switch logfile ;
after this i have drop the table .
Now to recover the table i have restored database on same vm.
rman>restore database ;
rman> recover database ;
rman> alter database open ;
on sqlplus i have issued
sqlplus> select * from scott.emp1 ;
table or view does not exist.
any help how to recover the deleted table from rman backup

Answer 1

Hi,
Check this test case
SQL> create table TEST2 as select * from emp;
Table created.
SQL> select count(*) from TEST2;
  COUNT(*)
        15
SQL> select TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD-
10-SEP-2013 10:57:05
SQL> alter system switch logfile;
System altered.
SQL> drop table TEST2 purge;
Table dropped.
SQL> shu immediate
[oracle@vnode MYSHELL]$ rman target /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Sep 10 10:58:39 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
connected to target database: DDTEST (DBID=1667776968, not open)
RMAN> run{
set until time "to_date('2013 Sep 10 10:57','yyyy mon dd hh24:mi')";
restore database;
recover database;
alter database open resetlogs;
}2> 3> 4> 5> 6>
media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:02
Finished recover at 10-SEP-13
database opened
RMAN> exit
SQL> set lin 200 pages 100
SQL> select count(*) from test2;
  COUNT(*)
        15
HTH