RE: Is DATAFILE order important in CREATE CONTROLFILE?

Thanks all for your responses. I'll go by "the order doesn't matter".

Let's see if I can hose up our dev DB with this now... ;)

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:13 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I'm writing a Perl script to automate the procedure to create
> a copy of an
> 8.1.7 production DB to a development server. Both production
> and dev are
> HP/UX 11.0.
>
> In doing this, I've created a file that cross-references where the
> production datafiles are and where they are to be placed in dev. This
> works
> fine, but I also wanted to dynamically create the CREATE CONTROLFILE
> statement for the "new" dev DB.
>
> I've noticed that the DATAFILE clause does not have the
> SYSTEM tablespace's
> datafile first, nor are any of the other datafiles in the
> same order that
> they are in production (e.g. from the output of an ALTER SYSTEM BACKUP
> CONTROLFILE TO TRACE). Does this matter? Does the order need to be
> preserved?
>
> I suppose I'll end up dynamically creating the
> cross-reference file, which
> would preserve the order, but now I'm curious.
>
> TIA!
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator

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