In my playing around with 8i, I accidently deleted some datafiles at
the OS level (rm raw_20020123.dbf) before having dropped the table
partitions in the tablespace, and thus also before dropping the
tablespace. The database is not all that critical, so I never set up
any extensive backup procedures nor archiving of the logs. The data
is old and I want it gone. A backup did happen to exist, but I had
already "alter database datafile '.../raw_20020123.dbf' offline drop"
to be able to open the database for other work to continue. This
marked the file for recovery. But I don't have the log files to
effect a roll forward for the recovery. I don't care. I just want to
remove the parition references (rb1%_20020123), tablespace
(raw_20020123), and datafile from the database so that I can do full
table scans again. The tablespace is defined as locally managed. How
do I tell the data dictionary to remove the information event though
the datafile is unavailable?
Received on Fri Feb 08 2002 - 09:56:48 CST
