Re: Partition recovery question

Dennis,

How about this strategy?

(1) Find out the tablespace the partition is in.
(2) ALTER TABLESPACE ... OFFLINE;
(3) ALTER TABLE ... DROP PARTITION ...

HTH. Arup

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> Thanks Arup
> I have tried some experiments on our test system. It is that old
problem
> of Oracle having so much integrity that you can't do something simple like
> that. When you try to just drop the partition, Oracle says "woops I can't
> read the file that partition is stored on".
> Looks as if my only choice is to move the data to a temporary table,
> rebuild the table and partitions, and move the data back. I'm guessing
that
> will be faster than export/import. Fortunately it isn't an extremely large
> table.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
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> Dennis,
>
> Why not just drop the partition?
>
> Arup
>
>
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>
> > I lost a data file that contained the tablespace for an empty partition.
I
> > dropped the datafile from Oracle, and the table itself seems okay, but
I'm
> > wondering what I can do with that partition. Can I simply merge that
> > partition with another partition? Any ideas especially if you've
> encountered
> > a similar situation would be welcome.
> >
> > Oracle 8.1.6
> > Alpha Tru64
> > Range partitions
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
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