A database administrator performs various operations (performing incremental backups, identifying and resolving network issues, viewing archive log destination, error generation in alert log, and more) to ensure that the database always remains in a running state. However, the possibility of database corruption exists due to human mistakes, virus attacks, and hardware corruption. In most cases, the database remains unmountable after it is corrupted, further rendering to inaccessibility of all its records. In such situations, if the administrator wants to access the Oracle database records, then s/he will need to use a cold backup to restore the database. However, if the administrator has not created any backup or the backup is not sufficient to meet all her/his requirements, then s/he needs to use an advanced third-party Oracle Recovery utility to repair the database.

Consider a practical case, where you, as a database administrator, perform below steps:...