title: Can you restore only certain schemas from an Oracle backup?
body: <p>We lost some data due to a data corruption issue, and we're trying to get our DBA to restore one of the nightly backups from a few days ago.</p>
  
  <p>However, we share this database with another team.  We each own a schema within the database.  Our schema is super small, and theirs I guess is some massive mapping database.</p>
  
  <p>They claim Oracle only allows you to restore an entire database at once (all or nothing), which they estimate will take 2-3 days provided we can even provision a server to perform the operation on.  I asked them if they can restore just our schema (which is about 30MB) and they said no.</p>
  
  <p>Are we being given the run-around, or is this actually a limitation of the Oracle restore tools?</p>