Re: Is it possible to add existing datafiles to an oracle database?

"which refuses to start"
--> What is the error that you receive on startup?

"The crashed database is deleted now and I only have the datafiles of the crashed database somewhere on my filesystem" --> If I read this carefully you are contradicting yourself here.... not?

On 4/25/08, Srinivas Chintamani <srinivas.chintamani_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> The crashed database is deleted now and I only have the datafiles of the
> crashed database somewhere on my filesystem. What I am trying to do is to
> find out if, it is possible to load the data from the datafiles of the
> crashed database into another new database.
>
> Earlier when working with SQL Server, it was simple to backup / restore the
> db. Just take a backup, dump the backup file anywhere on the filesystem and
> point to SQL Server, where the backup file is at and it happily recovered
> the db, all in a few seconds.
>
> Wonder why restoring an oracle db is such a pain ...
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas.
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, David Pintor <painterman_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not really sure if there's a way of doing that, but before thinking
>> about this I would try to recover the database first, or if your datafiles
>> are in a consistent state, I would try to recreate the control file and try
>> to restart...
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 25/04/2008, Srinivas Chintamani <srinivas.chintamani_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I ended up with a crashed Oracle db, which refuses to start. I have all
>>> the datafiles for this database and was wondering if it is possible to
>>> somehow "Load / Import" the data in these datafiles into another working
>>> database. If yes, it will save me quite a lot of re-work. Can somebody
>>> help me on this please ....
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Srinivas Chintamani
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srinivas Chintamani

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