From: Raghu Kota [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 15:57:04 +
Subject: Deleting Oracle8 on NT(cleaning Oracle8)
Hi Friends,
I need to clean Oracle8 database size 3Gb on one of my NT server, Is it
possible that shutdown the database and delete all datafiles and all
directories???
Raghu,
By shutting down the database and stopping the listener, you can delete all
the data files and directories without a problem. This will remove your
database.
If you want to remove Oracle8 software, that will require purging the
registry. I don't think I have ever successfully
Removing Oracle on NT (or any Windoze for that matter)
1. shutdown all oracle services (db, listener, etc.)
2. use the oracle installer and deinstall everything - this gets rid
of a large portion of oracle
3. use regedit and remove the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\oracle
4. search the
Raghu,
If you just want to delete one oracle database from an NT machine, do as you
suggest - delete all of the files (control, log, data), init.ora, and any
directories that held these files. Then, be sure and run ORADIM -delete
{sid} to remove the instance from the registry. That should do
