How to solve the ORA-10873 error message of Oracle
When I's trying to startup my Oracle instance with this method because It got the "ORA-01109 Database not open" error. I encountered another error: ORA-10873 file 1 needs to be either taken out of backup mode or media recovered Here is how I solved it. From the command prompt: sqlplus /@MYDBINSTANCE as sysdba STARTUP MOUNT SELECT * FROM V$BACKUP ALTER DATABASE END BACKUP ALTER DATABASE OPEN