Branimir, Correct me if I am wrong, but if I used your approach of dropping schema owner then if I have 25 schemas on my test db, I would have to drop ALL of them? I would think that dropping ALL schemas would equal removing entire database.
Julio Cesar Quijada-Reina Programmer Analyst Computer Services at Alfred State College -----Original Message----- Branimir Petrovic Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Run oradim.exe from command line to see how to delete SID. Deleting Oracle service via oradim _will_ remove corresponding registry entries. But why bother removing database, wouldn't dropping schema owner with cascade option followed by full import do the trick? Branimir > > Wouldn't I have to worry about any registry info for the test instance > after physically deleting the OS db files? Would I be able to create > test using the same instance name? > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Branimir Petrovic INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: QuijadaReina, Julio C INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).