About a month ago we had a fellow DBA accidentally drop the system user. = Opening a TAR with Oracle the only solution they would give us was to = restore a backup and recover to a point prior to the drop. We asked them about doing all kinds of things including the = export/import from another database or rerunning cat*.sql and they would = not give us the ok on anything but the restore. Scott -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ruth Gramolini Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:26 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: How to recover SYSTEM objects I may be missing something here, but if the SYSTEM user with it's = tables,etc is created when you create the database couldn't you just create an = empty database and export the SYSTEM schema and import it into the database = where it is lost. If you have another same flavor DB with the SYSTEM schema = intact you could try to use this. If it is created when the cat*.sql scripts = are run you could just rerun them. Just a thot, Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:43 AM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: How to recover SYSTEM objects Jared, the user id SYSTEM is almost always an object owner since a fresh Oracle install will create numerous objects under SYSTEM at least under versions 8.0 - 9.2. Maybe Oracle cleaned this up with version 10 but I = see junk related to materialized views and replication neither of which we = use just after database creation. -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 6:22 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to recover SYSTEM objects > Someone accidentally drops all SYSTEM objects. How do we restore > all objects that belong to SYSTEM? We have a full export dump file > but failed to run imp utility to recover. Please help. > Losing the SYSTEM user is not that big a deal. Just recreate it. You don't actually even need SYSTEM. Though in 9i+, SYSTEM gets more privileges than are given by simply granting the DBA role. Of coures, if SYSTEM owned data objects, you have a problem. But of course, that was probably not the case. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------