How to Tune Oracle Instance Recovery
The Oracle architecture is robust and will prevent loss of committed transactions barring a media failure. If there is no media failure, instance recovery is assured.
However, as a database administrator, what you really want is a fast recovery. The faster the database is back online, the sooner users will stop calling, emailing and dropping by to ask when the database is fixed.
Access this expert e-guide to learn more about the best practices for tuning Oracle instance recovery.