RE: rename a database

Metalink has a document giving step by step procedures for doing this. Sorry, I don't have the docid at my fingertips.

Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
IET Campus Data Center
wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-6208
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Finn Jorgensen Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:11 PM
To: genegurevich_at_discover.com
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: rename a database

Yep, that's still how it's done.

I just did one today :)

Finn

On 5/19/08, genegurevich_at_discover.com <genegurevich_at_discover.com> wrote:
> Hello :
>
>
> I need to rename an existing database (10.2.3). In the past (about 10
years
> ago and oracle 7) I was able to take the create controlfile command
> (via alter database rebuild controlfile to trace), replace the
filesystem
> name and the database name with a new instance name, rename
> all the filesystems accordingly, execute the create controlfile
command and
> be done.
>
> As I said I have not done it in about 10 years. Can this still be done
like
> that? Am I missing anything?
>
> thank you
>
> Gene Gurevich
>
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