Oooh, I think I did a bad thing....

Hi Everyone!

I'm am VERY new to Oracle, so bear with me as I phrase my question. I have a development-only database on Oracle 7.1, running on Digital UNIX (OSF/1) v3.2. THERE ARE NO BACKUPS OF THE DATA (no one is willing to pay for TBU's). I was installing a product which installed its own tablespaces, etc. I inadvertantly deleted the data files from the Unix prompt. Now, I cannot startup the database in SQL*DBA because of the missing data files. Is there any way to bring up the database without these datafiles? I'm willing to sacrifice them, for now.

Please, please don't tell me than I'm screwed without them. After all of the glorious things I've been told about Oracle, two small tablespaces can't invalidate an entire database, can they??

Panic stricken,

Eric J. Kristoff Received on Fri Jul 14 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST