Re: Delete a database instance

From: Geraint Williams <geraint.williams_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 03:21:03 GMT
Message-ID: <zic_6.529$J91.48075@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>

If you've deleted the NT service associated with these files, then why not go ahead and manually delete them.
The Database Configuration Assistant probably tried to start the instance in order to get a list of the files it should delete, but this failed.

Cheers,
Geraint.

"emiliosciacca" <emiliosciacca_at_inwind.it> wrote in message news:fE8_6.11121$mu2.60786_at_news2.tin.it...
> Dear Friends,
>
> I 've just installed for the first time oracle 8i on Windows NT and
created
> two new databases. Having observed that they are very much disk space
> consuming I've tried to delete them, using the " Database Configuration
> Assistant".
> Unfortunately It gave me an error message, but I said to go on deleting.
The
> result is that I don't see anymore these instances in the " Database
> Configuration Assistant", but I still have on the disk all the relative
> files. I read that probably the problem is that the correct SID must be
set
> in the shell from which the " Database Configuration Assistant" is
started.
> Otherwise,I read , that something similar to my problem can happen.
> Please Help me to delete them because they consumed all the free space I
had
> to work.
> Thanks, Emilio
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 22:21:03 CDT