Re: howto drop a corrupt database ?

> >It is said that 10g will provide a drop database command. Though I'd believe that
> >the datafiles need to be OMF for oracle to clean up the datafiles also.
> >
> >Anurag
> >
> Why would they have to be OMF? Oracle has always been able to create
> OS files (CREATE TABLESPACE . . .), so why couldn't it delete them?

Probably the same reason a simple DROP TABLESPACE command can't delete the datafiles. For some reason (?) a simple DROP TABLESPACE won't delete the datafiles unless the files are OMF. There is a clause (INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES) that will do it as well. Maybe DROP DATABASE in 10G has a similar clause.

Cheers,
Brian

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