Disaster strikes - you have to activate your standby database, or maybe you are busy performing a restore from a backup, and you get the dreaded “File 1 needs more recovery to be consistent” or “ File 1 was not restored from a sufficiently old backup”... error numbers are shown with "horror" -type messages - ORA-01194, ORA-01547, ORA-01152; but what now. What does this mean and can you recover past, or from this. In this session we will review these scenarios in a bit more detail and help you understand what these mean and what the next possible steps are.