RE: Database recovery problem

Try as hard as you may - you can not delete any Oracle data files on Windows (should have said - on Windows ONLY) while the database is up and running. Windows keeps them locked 'n safe from deletion attempts. However, take the tablespace offline and watch its individual data files become "fair game" for deletion attempts...  

The story you've been told on how the problem came to be - simply ain't true. It takes more than a simple mistake (on Windows that is) to get to this point. FYI - it takes *deliberate* aim.  

Branimir  

P.S.  

If there are no recent cold backups (or schema exports) - expect from partial to total data loss. If data loss is not acceptable - somebody should get "walking papers" over this.    

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From: Onkar N Tiwary [mailto:onkarnath.tiwary_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:55 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Database recovery problem

hi all,  

We have got one oracle 9i rel 2 on windows 2000 running in no-archive log mode. the problem is one of the dba of the other team has deleted some of the dbf files while the database was running and tablespace was online.

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Sep 20 2005 - 08:08:57 CDT