No idea, I've never looked at personal Oracle. We have the enterprise package, thats all I'm familiar with. I'm actually getting comfortable with Oracle's development tools, thou I perfer Visual Studio.
As for future development, there is none, in 15 working days the programming department (me and antoher guy) ceases to exist. Along with database/application adminstration(me as well), web services ,IT training and IT procurement. I belive other departments are also layting off every one they can.

>Is Personal Oracle an option for future development work? I use that here and at home.
>
>>Thanks for your input. Sadly, I've tried all of that. The problem was the system tables were the ones to go. With them went most of what was needed to recover the database. I have it sort of running at present though. As it was not a production database, it can be removed and recreated, but that would cost us our recovery catalog for all our other databases.
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>>>Hi Lorne,
>>>
>>>First let me say one caveat....
>>>I'm not an Oracle backup expert...
>>>
>>>You migth want to post to contact Oracle if you have a support agreement. There migth be something else you can do.
>>>
>>>Here's what I think happened...
>>>Did you restore a control file? If you did you should try to restore only the
>>>data files (hence the non existant archive log file..)
>>>Easier is if you have a nigthly export file in addition to standard backup? I find the export files easier to work with
>>>then a full backup for partial restores...
>>>
>>>You should be able to do a complete or cancel based recovery..
>>>
>>>You need..
>>>-dbf files from yesterday
>>>-control file from today is ok or backup controlfile taken using "alter
>>>database backup controlfile command"
>>>-All archived logfiles ( not redologs ) since your yesterdays dbf file
>>>backup
>>>
>>>If you meet this requirement,
>>>you can go for either complete recovery (only your current control & redologs are intact ) or cancel based recover ( If U lost your current controlfile and redo log groups ) or timebased recovery....I haven't got time to explain
>>>all in detail but they are covered in the manual..
>>>
>>>Hope that helps..