Clint,
I advise you to read Oracle Backup & Recovery from Rama Velpuri. One of
McGraw series.
Regards.
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> De: Clinton Naude [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: miércoles 7 de marzo de 2001 13:36
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> Asunto: RE: Dropping datafiles
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> Quite correct, offline drop is archive log mode, using just drop is non
> archive log mode.
>
> Clint
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> alter database <datafile_name> offline drop;
>
> I think you need to have the database in NOARCHIVELOG mode to do this
> though. Also, I'm pretty sure that you will not be able to reuse the
> datafile name, as it will still be stored within the bowels of Oracle.
>
> The list can confirm if I am wrong though :)
>
> HTH
>
> Mark
>
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> Ouch, big mistake : I added a datafile to a wrong tablespace...
> I don't know how to drop this datafile....
> can anybody help ?
>
> Thanx !!
>
> L.A.
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