About Oracle RESETLOGS

The RESETLOGS option is always required after incomplete media recovery or recovery

using a backup control file. Resetting the redo log does the following:

 

Archives the current online redo logs (if they are accessible) and then erases the

contents of the online redo logs and resets the log sequence number to 1. For

example, if the current online redo logs are sequence 1000 and 1001 when you

open RESETLOGS, then the database archives logs 1000 and 1001 and then resets

the online logs to sequence 1 and 2.

 

Creates the online redo log files if they do not currently exist.

 

Reinitializes the control file metadata about online redo logs and redo threads.

 

Updates all current datafiles and online redo logs and all subsequent archived

redo logs with a new RESETLOGS SCN and time stamp.

 

 

 

Because the database will not apply an archived log to a datafile unless the

RESETLOGS SCN and time stamps match, the RESETLOGS prevents you from

corrupting datafiles with archived logs that are not from direct parent incarnations of

the current incarnation.