ORA-00264: No Recovery Required — What It Means and How to Handle It ORA-00264 is an informational message returned by Oracle when a RECOVER command is issued against a database that is already in a consistent, synchronized state and requires no recovery. Rather than a fatal error, it is Oracle's way of telling the DBA that all datafile headers and the control file SCNs are already aligned. This typically occurs during routine startup procedures or automated recovery scripts that don't first val