"Murali" <oraclems_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Like you said in your first post, you cannot mix files from the DEV
> database and PLAY database. Did you copy the datafiles belonging to
> both the DEV database and the PLAY database to a single location (the
> trace file location, as you point out in the first post), then add ALL
> these datafile names to the CREATE CONTROLFILE script ? If you did,
> the clone (if you can call it that, since you are mixing datafiles)
> will fail. You cannot add datafiles from one database to another by
> using the cloning process. Try transportable tablespaces for that. If
> I have totally misread/misunderstood your post, sorry.
>
> A clone in your case would be you copying the DEV database files from
> the first machine to the second machine and renaming it to a new
> database PLAY (but without any datafiles from the old PLAY itself).
>
> Murali
> http://www.dbaquest.com/
All of he data files were copied from the old database and these replaced
the datafiles in the new database, so that no new files were left.
Should I have brought the new database up with the same name first, copied
the files over, restarted with copied files, and then renamed the database?
Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 10:24:32 CST
