Re: Drop database on Oracle 9i

From: gazzag <gareth_at_jamms.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:35:12 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <55809c08-4ee5-4158-9403-d923dbe4abe7@u29g2000pro.googlegroups.com>


On 13 Nov, 11:28, "Odd B Andersen" <oba..._at_online.no> wrote:
> As you may understand I'm new to Oracle :-)
>
> But I wish to drop a database on Oracle 9i, but cannot find a 'drop
> database' command, like I find in versjon 10g. How can I drop my database?
> This is on Solaris, and I cannot use any GUI tools (DBCA).
> --
> Regards
>
> Odd Bjørn Andersen
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Prior to 10g, dropping a database consisted of shutting the instance down and manually removing its associated datafiles, logs, control files and associated init.ora file at operating system level. You might also want to remove any reference to it in /etc/oratab or /var/ opt/oratab.

HTH -g Received on Thu Nov 13 2008 - 06:35:12 CST

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