V$RECOVERY_STATUS

V$RECOVERY_STATUS contains statistics of the current recovery process. This view contains useful information only for the Oracle process doing the recovery. When Recovery Manager directs a server process to perform recovery, only Recovery Manager is able to view the relevant information in this view. V$RECOVERY_STATUS will be empty to all other Oracle users.

Column	Datatype	Description
`RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT`	`DATE`	Point in time to which the recovery has occurred. If no logs have been applied, this is the point in time the recovery starts.
`THREAD`	`NUMBER`	Number of the redo thread currently being processed
`SEQUENCE_NEEDED`	`NUMBER`	Log sequence number of the log needed by the recovery process. The value is `0` if no log is needed.
`SCN_NEEDED`	`VARCHAR2(16)`	Low SCN of the log needed by recovery. The value is `0` if unknown or no log is needed.
`TIME_NEEDED`	`DATE`	Time when the log was created. The value is midnight on 1/1/88 if the time is unknown or if no log is needed.
`PREVIOUS_LOG_NAME`	`VARCHAR2(513)`	Filename of the log
`PREVIOUS_LOG_STATUS`	`VARCHAR2(13)`	Status of the previous log. Contains one of the following values: `RELEASE; WRONG NAME; MISSING NAME; UNNEEDED NAME; NONE`
`REASON`	`VARCHAR2(13)`	Reason recovery is returning control to the user (`NEED LOG\|LOG REUSED\|THREAD DISABLED`)