Recovering Data from a Oracle DBF only

Hey, I believe I know the answer but like to pose question anyway.
We had a database which the server crashed. The last backup was
in January. No archivelog at that time. The flash recovery worked
great....But the information between the backup and crash is not
there... All I saved was the DBF files in the oracledata directory...
Is there anyway to look or recover that data from some on the tables in
this file...
Now....we enabled achivelog and have a schedule task to backup and
off load daily.....
Just would like to know if there is anything we can do with the datafile...
Thank you....Any guru out there......

Yes, you can recover your data only from DBF files.
For that you need to create controlfile statement like you would get from an alter database backup controlfile to trace.
Also on one of your other instances do an alter database backup controlfile to trace and you will get lots of example ;-)
Cheers!

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