what is the problem what errors are you getting need more detail --- sol beach <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had/have a test DB where a number of files got > corrupted. > I just HAVE be able to open this DB. > I am willing to sacrafice the data in the corrupted > files. > What are the steps to do so? > It is something along the lines of STARTUP NOMOUNT > ALTER TABLESPACE ???? OFFLINE; > DROP TABLESPACE ?????; > STARTUP MOUNT; > ALTER DATABASE OPEN; > > I've just looked in Metalink & did not find where > this procedure is documented. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l