Restoring an inadvertently dropped table

I was dropping temporary tables and accidentally dropped a useful table. Now I want to recover that specific table. Is it possible to retrieve that table?

Brian Peasland

Published: 30 Nov 2004

I am working under windows 2000 and my database is Oracle 8. I was dropping temporary tables. During the course of doing this, I dropped a useful table. Now I want to recover that specific table (dropped through the drop command). Is it possible to retrieve that table?

The only way to restore your table is to restore your database from a backup and to recover to a point in time just before you dropped the table. However, you will lose all information since that time.

Oracle 10g makes life easier with the ability to recover a dropped table similar to recovering a file from a Windows Recycle Bin.

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Another way to drop all tables There is a second solution to drop all tables without creating a script. You could set up a cursor reading all the tables, and you could use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to drop them within a loop.

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