At least once during your career as a DBA, you will bei exposed to a situation where your well prepared recovery jobs fail. Better to have a “plan B” ready to execute rather than falling back to reading the manuals and the diagnosis guide. This presentation explains the usage of the Repair utility and shows some typical use cases where Repair is very suitable, for example re-installing uniqueness of a set of columns after a load operation, or assisting when performing a recovery of dropped objects.