Re: lost datafile and checkpoing

Hi,

    Offline that datafile /tablespace can also work, I think. Just to close that file.

    Or you can $ echo ''>datafile_name.Then this file is totally corrupted either.
Regards
zhu chao
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www.cnoug.org
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> What platform? On Unix the database is really looking at the inode of the
file which did not change. What you'd have to do is bounce Oracle to get it to fail.
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
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> Hi all:
>
> I have been testing backups against Oracle9 db.
> I have renamed a datafile from file.dbf to file.dbf2.
> Then I ran a checkpoint expecting it to fail, but it
> didn't. I have done that several time without getting
> any warning from checkpoint. I though that checkpoint
> should 'touch" all the datafile and notice that one
> of them is missing. am I wrong?
>
> thanks
>
> Gene
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