As you suggested I don't want to try. I am scared to drop this tablespace
because it is system created during Oracle installation. Let me keep that
datafile (it is only 10MB file).
Thanks for all the information.
Ganesh Kamath.
"Thomas Kyte" <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com> wrote in message
news:9j4ci202h7l_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <9j4aj3$cfl3_at_ctmsun0.macau.ctm.net>, "Little says...
> >
> >Try the following
> >1. Alter database datafile 'xxx.dbf' offline drop;
> >2. You may need to remove the datafile manually (I'm not sure. Try
yourself)
> >
> Don't "try" things you don't understand!
> If you do that, your only recourse is to drop the tablespace (explicitly
state "i do not want to drop the tablespace") fact is, once added, a file is
part of a database until you drop the tablespace
it is part of.
You can move it, you can resize it (shrink it way down) but you aren't going
to get rid of it.
see
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:515222144
417
for more info.
Regards,
Andrew
> >"Ganesh Kamath" <ganesh.kamath_at_in.bosch.com> wrote in message
> >news:9j33dk$pih$1_at_proxy.fe.internet.bosch.com...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> By mistake one datafile has been added to a tablespace, which already
had
> >> one datafile. Now I want to delete the newly added datafile. How do I
do
> >> this? I don't want to drop the tablespace.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ganesh Kamath
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Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 22:23:51 CDT
