Can you use "RENAME" instead of "FLASHBACK TABLE" to restore a table in Oracle? Just a general question about flashback and the recycle bin in Oracle.  I tried doing this on a demo oracle database I have but the recycle bin does not seem to want to be populated; and I want a quick answer.

One can do the following:

flashback table table_name to before drop;
alter index "BIN$U/9fvJKaASzgQKjAYAIWhw==$0" rename to sys_c1113050;


Can you do this then, to restore a table:

RENAME TABLE BIN$U/9fvJKaASzgQKjAYAIWhw==$0 TO TABLE_NAME
No you cannot. To restore a table from the recycle bin use flashback table &lt;table_name&gt; to before drop;

&lt;table_name&gt; is the original table name and not the object_name from the recycle bin.

Do not rename the table to restore it from the recycle bin!