Yep, that's the way it works. Whoever started the rumor that the datafiles
were unwriteable hadn't looked into the process deeply enough to understand
it. The Oracle Ed. class that I took for backup and recovery explained the
process exactly as it is, using the checkpoint, redo, and rollbacks but
still writing to files.
Rodd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: novicedba [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:06 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions
>
> Hi everyone,
> I visited Jeremiah Wilton's web page <http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton>
> I was shocked to read Hot backup mode explained
> <http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/hot-backup.html>
> If this is true then I may be a victim of a disease called
> 'Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions' . Somebody help me!! (Jim carrey-MASK
> style)
> Please help me. If some one has few more articles like this enlighten me
> coz
> I am a
> novice
> Oracle Certifiable DBBS
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