Flashback Problem

Question

Hello.
I've been trying to play with Flashback without using OEM. But I'm not getting the proper results. I enable flashback like this:
startup mount;
alter database archivelog;
alter system set DB_FLASHBACK_RETENTION_TARGET=4320;
alter system set DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE=536870912;
alter system set DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST='/u01/oradata/gordie/flashback';
alter database flashback on;
shutdown immediate;
startup;
Then I create a table and insert some data into it, and then:
SQL> drop table test_table;
Table dropped.
SQL> flashback table "test_table" to before drop;
flashback table "test_table" to before drop
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-38305: object not in RECYCLE BIN
If I look at DBA_RECYCLEBIN, indeed there is nothing there. A file is put in my flashback directory but I'm not sure whats exactly in there. I thought maybe I needed to do a commit prior to the drop but there is no change.
Does anyone have an idea as to what I'm doing wrong?
Thank You!

Answer 1

Ah..... I had 2 problems. First was using the SYSTEM tablespace (for testing I just used the sys user) and
the second was that I wasn't properly casing the table name.
Since Oracle is changing the name of my tables to all caps, trying to flashback table "table" won't work, but flashback table "TABLE" will.
Thanx Werner!