Jay is absolutely right. Paul, if you would like to
know more about your datafile issue go to
'metalink.oracle.com' and check out 'Note:111316.1',
which will explain everything about datafile re-org.
- "Miller, Jay" <JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com> wrote:
> It isn't an OPS issue, you can't drop a datafile
> without dropping the entire
> tablespace. This has never been possible.
>
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>
> Hello list,
>
> Oracle 8.1.6.3.0, on HP-UX 11.0, using Oracle
> Parallel Server (OPS)
>
> According to Oracle, I should be able to drop a
> datafile that has no data
> written to it, but I can not. Neither DBA studio
> (the garbage can stays
> 'grayed'), nor the command line (alter tablespace,
> with the DROP clause)
> works. I had immediately taken the datafile offline
> (I had typed
> sbplus_x18.dbf instead of sbplus_x16.dbf for the
> datafile name to use in
> case you are wondering how this turn of events
> happened in the first place),
> and checked all of the books, and Meta-Link. I tried
> a test on a
> non-production machine, no go; even taking the
> tablespace off-line first
> makes no difference. And of course I get errors as
> one node can not see the
> other nodes sbplus_x18.dbf datafile. I tried an
> 'alter system check
> datafiles' to see if this would make the other node
> happy (as the datafile
> is now off-line, this may work), but I need a
> solution other than exporting
> the data, rebuilding the tablespace, then importing
> the export.
>
> Anyone ever come across this issue ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul Sherman
> DBA
> voice - 781-501-4143 (office)
> fax - 781-278-8341 (office)
> email - psherman_at_elcom.com
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