On 4/25/08, Srinivas Chintamani <srinivas.chintamani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I ended up with a crashed Oracle db, which refuses to start. I have all the > datafiles for this database and was wondering if it is possible to somehow > "Load / Import" the data in these datafiles into another working database. > If yes, it will save me quite a lot of re-work. Can somebody help me on > this please .... > > -- > Regards, > Srinivas Chintamani As suggested by someone else on this list, Oracle has a tool called DUL, to extract the data from the datafiles without Oracle starting up. Alternatively, there are 3rd party tools like: http://www.ora600.nl/pricing.htm http://www.anysql.net/en Or a few others as listed here: http://www.anysql.net/tools/eight_dul_like_tools.html: * Bernard's Data UnLoader * DUDE/jDUL * AnySQL UnLoader (AUL) * Oracle Salvage * OracleRecovery * Recovery for Oracle * MyDUL * CLOUT Sorry, I know nothing about them. Does anyone know any opensource tools that can do this? -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l