Welcome to oracle virtual classroom where we simplify your understanding of all thing Oracle Software related. We hope you would join us on this journey as we proceed. Today we will be starting off with how to back up your control file using RMAN (oracle's recovery manager). What is a control file in the first place and why do we need to back it up?
Well for starters the control file in an oracle database stores the status of the physical structure of the database.
The control file is a critical aspect of the database, without it the...