Martin Kovalski wrote:
Thanks. Oracle is very weird, unfriendly and ..... database. If I'm doing FULL backup, that means, that I should be able to recover to that point, in which backup STARTS, not ends. This way it works on any other databases.
Hi,
I cannot talk about other DBs (I stop doing Informix ages ago) but you do not specify what kind of backup you are doing.
If you are doing an offline backup, by definition it is "consistent", you restore it and you can open it without recovering.
If you are doing an online backup, by definition is "not consistent", you restore it and you cannot open it. You must apply redo logs to make it consistent.
It is explained in the "Oracle Database Concepts" guide