Do you want to drop the database as a whole, i.e. including your system tablespace etc?
Just delete all your controlfiles, datafiles and redologfiles, keep the init<SID>.ora and start creating the database all over again. (You do have a create-script, don't you?).
Of course you can execute the create database command using the REUSE clause for all files, but I hate including this in a script. When someone, it might be even be you, inadvertently re-executes the script all your files might be gone. Not using the REUSE clause will simply cause the script to fail.
Regards, Carel-Jan
At 04:09 9-11-03 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Oracle 8.0.4 on AIX: for one of the databases, my datafiles got corrupted and I got NO BACKUP& (and NOARCHIVELOG) :(
SVRMGR> alter database open;
ORA-01122: database file 6 failed verification check
ORA-01110: data file 6: '/data4/test/testdb01.dbf'
ORA-01251: Unknown File Header Version read for file number 6
& no problem& I'm willing to restart, so I want to drop the whole database and start all over again (using the same name).
How can I drop this database ???
When I try to do this from "svrmgrl", I get: "ORA-01109: database not open", duh !
Any ideas how to proceed ?
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