ENABLE FLASHBACK ON A DATABASE

Heres how to enable flashback : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Logon to the database host. Change to the user that runs the instance. Set ORACLE_SID environment variable to the database SID. Login using SQL*Plus as sys with sysdba rights. Run the following SQL commands. SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE; SQL> STARTUP MOUNT EXCLUSIVE; SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET DB_FLASHBACK_RETENTION_TARGET=20G
SCOPE=SPFILE;

SQL> ALTER DATABASE FALSHBACK ON; SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN;