RE: How to drop a database

From: Ruiz, Mary A (CAP, CDI) <Mary.Ruiz_at_gecapital.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:37:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002A4F99.20010130123115@fatcity.com>

If the database was created with the dbassist utility, I believe there is a button to click to drop a database. In 8.1.5 it did not work very well, as I found it difficult to
create a new database with the same name as the one I "deleted". There is a little more to this than removing the datafiles, to really obliterate it from your system you need to
remove all subdirectories with the instance name, modify the configuration files such as oratab and listener.ora .

Mary Ruiz / Atlanta GA

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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hello all,

Sorry to ask what might be a dumb question, but a friend wants to drop a test database (Solaris/Oracle 8.1.7) and I can't seem to find the right command(s).

Would it be a series of alter database drop xxx?

Thanks for any help.

Woody

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