Oracle-L: Re: Howto drop a corrupt database ?

From: Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:19:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6245.20031109131926@fatcity.com>

Just for the record, in 10g you actually can use drop database command ;)

Tanel.

Original Message ----- From: Carel-Jan Engel To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Howto drop a corrupt database ?

Hi Gorik,

Do you want to drop the database as a whole, i.e. including your system tablespace etc?

Just delete all your controlfiles, datafiles and redologfiles, keep the init<SID>.ora and start creating the database all over again. (You do have a create-script, don't you?).

Of course you can execute the create database command using the REUSE clause for all files, but I hate including this in a script. When someone, it might be even be you, inadvertently re-executes the script all your files might be gone. Not using the REUSE clause will simply cause the script to fail.

Regards, Carel-Jan

At 04:09 9-11-03 -0800, you wrote:

Hi,

I'm running Oracle 8.0.4 on AIX: for one of the databases, my datafiles got corrupted and I got NO BACKUP& (and NOARCHIVELOG) :(

SVRMGR> alter database open;

    ORA-01122: database file 6 failed verification check 
    ORA-01110: data file 6: '/data4/test/testdb01.dbf' 
    ORA-01251: Unknown File Header Version read for file number 6

& no problem& I'm willing to restart, so I want to drop the whole database and start all over again (using the same name).

How can I drop this database ???

When I try to do this from "svrmgrl", I get: "ORA-01109: database not open", duh !

Any ideas how to proceed ?

Kind regards,

    Gorik
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