3
Recovery Catalog Views

This chapter contains descriptions of recovery catalog views. You can only access these views if you have created a recovery catalog. For a summary of the recovery catalog views, refer to "Summary of RMAN Recovery Catalog Views".

Note: These views are not normalized, but are optimized for RMAN usage. Hence, most catalog views have redundant values that result from joining of several underlying tables.

Summary of RMAN Recovery Catalog Views

The following table provides a functional summary of RMAN recovery catalog views.

Table 3-1 Recovery Catalog Views

Recovery Catalog View	Corresponding V$ View	Catalog View Describes ...
RC_ARCHIVED_LOG	V$ARCHIVED_LOG	Archived and unarchived redo logs
RC_BACKUP_CONTROLFILE	V$BACKUP_DATAFILE	Control files in backup sets
RC_BACKUP_CORRUPTION	V$BACKUP_CORRUPTION	Corrupt block ranges in datafile backups
RC_BACKUP_DATAFILE	V$BACKUP_DATAFILE	Datafiles in backup sets
RC_BACKUP_PIECE	V$BACKUP_PIECE	Backup pieces
RC_BACKUP_REDOLOG	V$BACKUP_REDOLOG	Archived redo logs in backup sets
RC_BACKUP_SET	V$BACKUP_SET	Backup sets for all incarnations of the database
RC_BACKUP_SPFILE	V$BACKUP_SPFILE	Server parameter files in backups
RC_CHECKPOINT		Deprecated in favor of RC_RESYNC
RC_CONTROLFILE_COPY	V$DATAFILE_COPY	Control file copies on disk
RC_COPY_CORRUPTION	V$COPY_CORRUPTION	Control file copies on disk
RC_DATABASE	V$DATABASE	Databases registered in the recovery catalog
RC_DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION	V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION	Database blocks marked as corrupted in the most recent RMAN backup or copy
RC_DATABASE_INCARNATION	V$DATABASE_INCARNATION	Database incarnations registered in the recovery catalog
RC_DATAFILE	V$DATAFILE	Datafiles registered in the recovery catalog
RC_DATAFILE_COPY	V$DATAFILE_COPY	Datafile copies on disk
RC_LOG_HISTORY	V$LOG_HISTORY	Online redo log history indicating when log switches occurred
RC_OFFLINE_RANGE	V$OFFLINE_RANGE	Offline ranges for datafiles
RC_PROXY_CONTROLFILE	V$PROXY_DATAFILE	Control file backups that were taken using the proxy copy functionality
RC_PROXY_DATAFILE	V$PROXY_DATAFILE	Datafile backups that were taken using the proxy copy functionality
RC_REDO_LOG	V$LOG and V$LOGFILE	Online redo logs for all incarnations of the database since the last catalog resynchronization
RC_REDO_THREAD	V$THREAD	All redo threads for all incarnations of the database since the last catalog resynchronization
RC_RESYNC	n/a	Recovery catalog resynchronizations
RC_RMAN_CONFIGURATION	V$RMAN_CONFIGURATION	RMAN configuration settings
RC_STORED_SCRIPT	n/a	Names of scripts stored in the recovery catalog
RC_STORED_SCRIPT_LINE	n/a	Contents of the scripts stored in the recovery catalog
RC_TABLESPACE	V$TABLESPACE	All tablespaces registered in the recovery catalog, all dropped tablespaces, and tablespaces that belong to old incarnations