I'd like to thank all the folks who responded. Ive learned allot through this exercise
Thank you for your time and feedback!
Shannon St. Dennis wrote:
> by copying over the redo logs.... you've lost all records of that > table being created,. > > you need the current control files, current redo logs, and old data > files in order to recover to a point before the table was created, but > after the cold backup was taken. > > by recovering all files,including redo logs, you've essentially put > the entire database back to where it was when the cold backup was taken.
