Re: OFA and file extension naming conventions

"Snid" <snid_at_snider.sno> wrote in message news:<c3vqre$a1d$1_at_bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
> So do you believe that oracle should keep calling tempfiles datafiles and
> that it is a good naming convention even though they can't be hot backed up
> and that oracle treats them differently to dba_data_files?
>
> One can no longer say that you only need to backup datafiles.

You might find this old thread interesting:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=ac826aa3095d254d&rnum=1

One thing I didn't consider at the time but is now obvious, OEM often shows temp files as full (this is a feature), so an easy mistake for a newbie to make is to go "Oh, that file is near full, so I'll just add another one."

jg

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