DB_KEY

NUMBER

The primary key for the target database. Use this column to join with almost any other catalog view.

DBINC_KEY

NUMBER

The primary key for the incarnation of the target database. Use this column to join with RC_DATABASE_INCARNATION.

PDB_KEY

NUMBER

The primary key of the PDB in the recovery catalog. Use this column to identify the PDB that owns the data file copies.

DB_NAME

VARCHAR2(8)

The DB_NAME of the database incarnation to which this record belongs.

CDF_KEY

NUMBER

The primary key of the data file copy in the recovery catalog. If you issue the LIST command while RMAN is connected to the recovery catalog, then this value appears in the KEY column of the output.

RECID

NUMBER

The data file copy record from V$DATAFILE_COPY. RECID and STAMP form a concatenated primary key that uniquely identifies this record in the target database control file.

STAMP

NUMBER

The data file copy stamp from V$DATAFILE_COPY. RECID and STAMP form a concatenated primary key that uniquely identifies this record in the target database control file.

NAME

VARCHAR2(1024)

The file name of the data file copy.

TAG

VARCHAR2(32)

The tag for the data file copy.

FILE#

NUMBER

The absolute file number for the data file.

CREATION_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The creation SCN of the data file.

CREATION_TIME

DATE

Data file creation timestamp.

RESETLOGS_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The SCN of the most recent RESETLOGS when the data file was created.

RESETLOGS_TIME

DATE

The time stamp of the most recent RESETLOGS in the data file header.

INCREMENTAL_LEVEL

NUMBER

The incremental level of the copy: 0 or NULL.

CHECKPOINT_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The SCN of the most recent data file checkpoint.

CHECKPOINT_TIME

DATE

The time of the most recent data file checkpoint.

ABSOLUTE_FUZZY_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The highest SCN in any block of the file, if known. Recovery must proceed to at least this SCN for the file to become not fuzzy.

RECOVERY_FUZZY_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The SCN to which recovery must proceed for the file to become not fuzzy. If not NULL, this file must be recovered at least to the specified SCN before the database can be opened with this file.

RECOVERY_FUZZY_TIME

DATE

The time that is associated with the RECOVERY_FUZZY_CHANGE#.

ONLINE_FUZZY

VARCHAR2(3)

YES/NO. If set to YES, this copy was made after an instance failure or OFFLINE IMMEDATE (or is a copy that was taken improperly while the database was open). Recovery applies all redo up to the next crash recovery marker to make the file consistent.

BACKUP_FUZZY

VARCHAR2(3)

YES/NO. If set to YES, this is a copy taken using the BEGIN BACKUP/END BACKUP technique. To make this copy consistent, the recovery process needs to apply all redo up to the marker that is placed in the redo stream when the ALTER TABLESPACE END BACKUP command is used.

BLOCKS

NUMBER

The number of blocks in the data file copy (also the size of the data file when the copy was made).

BLOCK_SIZE

NUMBER

The size of the blocks in bytes.

COMPLETION_TIME

DATE

The time when the copy completed.

STATUS

VARCHAR2(1)

The status of the copy: A (available), U (unavailable), X (expired), or D (deleted).

KEEP

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether this copy has a retention policy different from the value for CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY. Possible values are YES and NO.

KEEP_UNTIL

DATE

If the KEEP UNTIL TIME clause of the COPY command was specified, then this column shows the date after which this data file copy becomes obsolete. If the column is NULL and KEEP OPTIONS is not NULL, the copy never becomes obsolete.

KEEP_OPTIONS

VARCHAR2(11)

The KEEP options specified for this data file copy. Possible values are NOLOGS, BACKUP_LOGS, LOGS, and NULL. NOLOGS indicates a consistent backup made when the database was mounted. BACKUP_LOGS indicates that the backup was made in open mode, so archived log backups must be applied to make it consistent. LOGS indicates a long-term backup made with the LOGS keyword, which is now deprecated. NULL indicates that this backup has no KEEP options and becomes obsolete based on the retention policy.

SCANNED

VARCHAR2(3)

Whether RMAN scanned the file (YES or NO). If YES, then this copy was created by a server process that examined every block in the file, for example, by the RMAN COPY or RESTORE command. If NO, then RMAN did not examine every block in the file, as when RMAN inspects a non-RMAN generated image copy or restores by proxy copy.

Whenever RMAN creates or restores a data file copy, it adds rows to the V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION view and RC_DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION view if it discovers corrupt blocks in the file. If RMAN has scanned the entire file, then the absence of corruption records for this copy means that no corrupt blocks exist in the file. If RMAN did not scan the file, then the absence of corruption records means that corrupt blocks may or may not exist in the file.

IS_RECOVERY_DEST_FILE

VARCHAR2(3)

This data file copy is located in the fast recovery area: YES or NO.

RSR_KEY

NUMBER

Unique key for the row in RC_RMAN_STATUS that created this backup piece.

MARKED_CORRUPT

NUMBER

The number of blocks that were discovered to be corrupt during the course of this backup. These blocks were reformatted as known-corrupt blocks in the output image copy.

SITE_KEY

NUMBER

Primary key of the Data Guard database associated with this file. Each database in a Data Guard environment has a unique SITE_KEY value. You can use SITE_KEY in a join with the RC_SITE view to obtain the DB_UNIQUE_NAME of the database.

DB_UNIQUE_NAME

VARCHAR2(512)

The DB_UNIQUE_NAME of the database incarnation to which this record belongs. All databases in a Data Guard environment share the same DBID but different DB_UNIQUE_NAME values. The value in this column is null when the database name is not known for a specific file. For example, rows for databases managed by versions of RMAN before Oracle Database 11g are null.

FOREIGN_DBID

NUMBER

Foreign DBID of the database from which this data file was transported. The value is 0 if the file backed up is not a foreign database file.

PLUGGED_READONLY

VARCHAR2(3)

YES if this is a copy of a transported read-only foreign file; otherwise NO.

PLUGIN_CHANGE#

NUMBER

SCN at which the foreign data file was transported into the database. The value is 0 if this file is not a foreign database file.

PLUGIN_RESETLOGS_CHANGE#

NUMBER

The SCN of the RESETLOGS operation for the incarnation into which this foreign file was transported. The value is 0 if this file is not a foreign database file.

PLUGIN_RESETLOGS_TIME

DATE

The time of the RESETLOGS operation for the incarnation into which this foreign file was transported. The value is 0 if this file is not a foreign database file.

SPARSE_BACKUP

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates if the backup is a sparse backup