e: deleting a datafile on OPS

From: Sherman, Paul R. <PSherman_at_elcom.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:07:08 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003FFBBE.20020129150815@fatcity.com>

Hello list,

Oracle 8.1.6.3.0, on HP-UX 11.0, using Oracle Parallel Server (OPS)

According to Oracle, I should be able to drop a datafile that has no data written to it, but I can not. Neither DBA studio (the garbage can stays 'grayed'), nor the command line (alter tablespace, with the DROP clause) works. I had immediately taken the datafile offline (I had typed sbplus_x18.dbf instead of sbplus_x16.dbf for the datafile name to use in case you are wondering how this turn of events happened in the first place), and checked all of the books, and Meta-Link. I tried a test on a non-production machine, no go; even taking the tablespace off-line first makes no difference. And of course I get errors as one node can not see the other nodes sbplus_x18.dbf datafile. I tried an 'alter system check datafiles' to see if this would make the other node happy (as the datafile is now off-line, this may work), but I need a solution other than exporting the data, rebuilding the tablespace, then importing the export.

Anyone ever come across this issue ?

Thank you,

Paul Sherman
DBA
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