Re: Drop a Database?

From: Marc Mazerolle <informaze_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:07:41 GMT
Message-ID: <373B240D.B64289C@sympatico.ca>

Jeremy,

Use ORADIM73 and delete the database.... Then remove unwanted files left over...

Regards,

Marc Mazerolle

Jeremy Ovenden wrote:

> Guys, can anyone help? I have a database that I believe is really in bad
> shape - ora-600 errors that I have been unable to identify cause of (I
> _think_ caused by interrupting ConText text indexing activities with a
> shutdown abort...). Anyway, I want to put in Oracle8.0.5 and start afresh.
>
> Oracle7 7.3.3.00 on NT 4.0 SP3
>
> 1) is there any facility anywhere for 'dropping' an entire database?
>
> 2) if not, I want to remove whatever references there are to it in registry
> or wherever and most importantly, reclaim the disk space allocate dto DB
> files.
>
> Any clean ways of doing this?
>
> Thanks very much......
>
> Jeremy Ovenden
> HazelWeb Systems
> UK
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 14:07:41 CDT