Re: Seeking opinions

On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:43:34 -0800, you wrote:

>Great point. I had recently created a DB file and forgot to put the ".dbf"
>extension on it. If someone didn't query the DD of the DB first, they might
>have thought it was a junk/temp file (they would have to ignore the file's
>timestamp) and deleted it.

Yeah, naming convention or no, I can't imagine not looking at v$datafile or dba_datafiles just to be sure.

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