Re: Best way to drop and recreate and instance?

Mark,

Shame on you. Ignoring "good old" ORADIM?

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:03 AM

> Never mind all - I "cheated" and used the "Database Configuration
Assistant"
> to drop and create a new one.. ;P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 24 April 2002 12:53
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have *finally* got time to drop one of our test instances and recreate
it
> (tomorrow), and wanted some feedback from all of you as to the best way to
> go around this?
>
> The current instance is 8.1.7. on a Win2K machine.. The reason that I'm
> dropping/recreating (some of you may remember this) is because I simply
> *CANNOT* drop a user:
>
> sales>connect sys/sys_at_sales
> Connected.
> sales>select username, password
> 2 from dba_users
> 3 where username = 'SCOTT';
>
> USERNAME PASSWORD
> ------------------------------ ------------------------------
> SCOTT F894844C34402B67
>
> sales>drop user scott cascade;
> drop user scott cascade
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
> ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
>
> LOL!
>
> If anybody has seen this since I last asked the list, and has a solution,
> please speak up now as this will save me the time of dropping/recreating
the
> instance..
>
> Moving on - what would you consider the best approach to dropping and
> recreating an instance on a Win32 platform? In the past (as these are
purely
> test instances) I have simply blasted the whole directories (Oracle and
> all), then deleted any mention of "Oracle" within the registry (after
taking
> a backup of course), and moved on to a completely fresh install (usually
to
> go to a higher version). This time though, I would like to keep 8.1.7
> installed on this box, and would prefer to keep Oracle installed, and
simply
> drop and recreate a fresh (empty) instance..
>
> How would you go about doing this?
>
> Advanced thanks.
>
> Mark
>
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