Ah.. but again, one can always rename those... Right?
The 'drop...' does work. With OMF and non-OMF files.
- Kirti
- "Koivu, Lisa" <Lisa.Koivu_at_Cendant-TRG.com> wrote:
> No. OMF does not let you name datafiles. If you read the
> documentation, it states that it assigns a guaranteed unique name to the
> datafile.
>
> Does 'drop tablespace including contents and datafiles' not work? I use
> OMF but I'm beginning to think it's a pain in the a$$.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ryan.gaffuri_at_cox.net [mailto:ryan.gaffuri_at_cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:41 PM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: omf and maintaining naming conventions
>
> We have strict naming conventions for our datafiles. I want to use OMF
> for two reasons
>
> 1. pointer to one location for our datafiles
> 2. so when I drop tablespaces, the OS file gets dropped.
>
> Im hoping to be able to do this, but its not using the
> db_file_create_dest parameter
>
> create tablespace mytablespace 'mytablespace.dbf' size 5m;
>
> anyway to do this?
>
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