Title: Reader from Phialdelphia is wrong
Product review: If you are running in archive mode, with a cold backup, you can recover up to the point of failure. It gets its information from the redo log files and archive redo log files. You only need to use a hot backup if the database needs to be running 24hrs. The book gives the impression that archived log files are purely in relation to hot backups. Rolling forward from cold backups is the commonest production scenario. I would recommend the book Oracle 8 Backup and Recovery Handbook by Rama Velpuri. for an accurate description of backup and recovery.
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