Hi SanJay,

As I am really not too clear on the part of recreating controlfile with datafiles which are actually hot backups whether after recreating the controlfile and when i perform recovery database does it know which archivedlog to start using??

here i am saying recreating controlfile because i am assumming i lost all controlfile binary backups..solely depend on datafiles hotbackup and archived logfiles...but I am not too sure if a Recover database will know when to start looking for an archived log as I dont have a spare machine to test and was hoping some kind soul that know will provide me an answer here?

thks