Hi, 9th April 2001 15:39 hrs chennai

1)Your query miss some more valid points.For eg.Whether he has quoted

ARCHIVE Mode or NOARCHIVE Mode.

2)If it is in NOARCHIVE mode you cannot do point in time recovery.(or media recovery) only whole DB recovery can be done.

3)Going by the default mode (NOARCHIVE) if he has not mentioned the mode then you can do data import to recover the lost data(That too if the last data has a valid latest export data).Data import can be done in both modes.

4)So its ideal you have chosen the data import.

cheers

Padmam