and, on a Unix box, I ALWAYS do an "fuser" before deleting a file. Just
in case.
- Jonathan Gennick <listmail_at_gennick.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 07:43:34 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Great point. I had recently created a DB file and forgot to put the
> ".dbf"
> >extension on it. If someone didn't query the DD of the DB first,
> they might
> >have thought it was a junk/temp file (they would have to ignore the
> file's
> >timestamp) and deleted it.
>
> Yeah, naming convention or no, I can't imagine not looking
> at v$datafile or dba_datafiles just to be sure.
>
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