Re: Unable to drop a datafile

From: Ryan January <rjjanuary_at_multiservice.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:43:21 -0500
Message-ID: <5047C779.6080005_at_multiservice.com>

I have seen similar error messages once in a great while where character data was found and numeric data was expected. If I recall correctly you have to specify the full path of the datafile when attempting to drop it when not using the file number. Did you only supply the file name ('DATAFILE_NAME') in the command or did you give it the full path ( '/path/to/DATAFILE_NAME', '+DATA/<db>/DATAFILE/DATAFILE_NAME' , etc...) ?

Thanks,
Ryan

On 09/05/2012 09:34 AM, Hameed, Amir wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am trying to drop a datafile which is empty and contains no extent and is not the first datafile of the tablespace either. I am getting the following error when I execute the drop command:
> alter tablespace <TS_NAME> drop datafile 'DATAFILE_NAME' ;
> alter tablespace .... drop datafile ....
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
> ORA-01426: numeric overflow
>
> The DB version is 11.1.0.7. Has anyone seen this issue and knows how to resolve it?
>
> Thanks
> Amir
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