another little, but fine improvement in oracle 12c: Now you may issue sql statements directly in rman without the need to use the “SQL ‘…'” syntax:
rman target / Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Jun 29 08:40:34 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. connected to target database: DBS300 (DBID=3276277814) RMAN> select instance_name from v$instance; using target database control file instead of recovery catalog INSTANCE_NAME ---------------- dbs300 RMAN> alter system switch logfile; Statement processed RMAN> shutdown; database closed database dismounted Oracle instance shut down RMAN> startup connected to target database (not started) Oracle instance started database mounted database opened Total System Global Area 334036992 bytes Fixed Size 2288104 bytes Variable Size 268437016 bytes Database Buffers 58720256 bytes Redo Buffers 4591616 bytes RMAN> select status from v$instance; STATUS ------------ OPEN RMAN>
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