If you don't have the internal password, I think you can get away with
deleting (rename is safer) the pwdxxxx.ora file. BTW, the password is
normally hardcoded into the strtxxxx.cmd file.
Creating a new instance with oradim73 should work just fine. I've done
things like that to bring up the same database on a second server.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
See you at Techwave 99: http://www.sybase.com/events/techwave99/
shining_path_at_hexenworld.com wrote in message
<37b01c7d.152998440_at_news.tteam.com>...
>I am in a bit of a spot here. Recently, I inherited an oracle 7.3.4
>DB. On sunday the operating system (winNT) was reinstalled. Hence, all
>registry and instance/services settings where destroyed. This DB
>drives a number of internet sites. Now i am faced with the task of
>restoring these DB's without a proper back up or mirror to work from.
>Is there any way to restart a database using the existing initsid.ora
>and control files. I have tried to create an instance and point it at
>the existing init file, but when i try to log on to internal via
>server manager i get an insufficient permissions error. I have yet to
>figure out how to start the DB instance so i can log on to it. Any
>help would be greatly appreciated! you can reply directly to me at
>collierj_at_tteam.com
>
>Thanks again.
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 13:32:49 CDT
