Oracle Database Discussions

HEllo all,

Lets say I am running recovery of database (no RMAN) and I apply few redologs. How can I find out that recovery done on datafiles so far is sufficient and datafiles are in consistent state so I can open DB w/o problems? I mean , I know that I would get error in case I try to open DB and datafiles need more recovery, but I would like to see some kind of proof on my screen that recovery is not finished (probably some v$ view or something ).
Or it does not have to be an option that I am running recovery of DB, it can be that my DB is running and there is some failure which will require media recovery . Where can I see expect logs that I need to recover because of this or that does not match (I guess in some v$view for datafiles will be mismatch of some numbers comparing to v$controlfile or v$database view.....or??? )
I hope you guys got it what I mean :)))if not just let me know I'll try to explain it better
thx