Re: Help! Lost tablespace datafile

Arvind Krishnaswamy wrote:

> I accidentally deleted a tablespace dbf file whilst creating a database
> before dorpping the tablespace. So Oracle thinks the file is still
> around and does not let me either re-create/drop the tablespace again
> and I do not have a backup of the file.... Is there any way to get
> around this problem other than starting from scratch and creating the
> database again?
>
> Oracle version is 8.0.5 on Digital Unix .
>
> Thanks
>
> Arvind

AFAIK, you can still create the datafile, try ALTER DATABASE CREATE DATAFILE 'the fully qualified name you used'; Orcale will use size info, etc from v$datafile, where it should still be mentiond.

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Frank van Bortel
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