sounds like you are on the right track...and asking for help here is a
good start.
my apologies, I didn't mean to offend you. Some developers/DBAs don't
bother to try to learn on their own, then expect the list to fix
problems... My apologies, you are not one of those.
- david wendelken <davewendelken_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> >You started with several mistaken premises:
>
> >1) that you have to drop a file to change the name
>
> Nope! I didn't start with that assumption at all!
>
> I tried 'alter database rename file <oldname> to <newname>;'
> right at first. Gave me error messages that said it couldn't find
> the file.
>
> There's another command, alter tablespace, that's similar to that one
> and I tried it too. It gave me an invalid filename error.
>
> That led me to believe that the filename was something that oracle
> couldn't handle.
>
> My assumption was that it changed the name of the file IN oracle and
> IN the operating system.
> But it doesn't, you have to change the os filename yourself, and do
> it before the oracle command.
>
> By the time I figured that mistaken assumption out, I had already
> followed prompts by oem to take actions that caused other problems.
>
> >May I gently suggest that a review of the concepts and reference
> guides
> >is in order?
>
> I'm an application developer, not a DBA. We all have to specialize
> somewhere, and DBA work isn't mine.
> I've been digging thru the manuals all day long but I was getting
> caught in some catch-22 situations.
> It's the first time in a long time that I've gotten stuck! That's
> why I asked for help.
>
>
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