Quote Originally Posted by gandolf989 View Post
I wrote our current backup script to use PL/SQL to generate the SQL backup script which is then run to put each tablespace into backup mode so that its datafiles can be backed up and gzipped. So yes PL/SQL might make sense.
I can understand that, no problem but... original post was worded in a way it suggests PL/SQL would be the primary -or most used - tool to take a hot backup which is not the case.

Following the same line of thinking I few years ago I might said "how to take hot backup with out calling Mark?"... just because Mark was the primary responsible of backups