Mizan, You should know about the Recovery procedure and had a hot backup of index tablespace datafile/s and you have not lost anything. Else Lets first get your index up and runing, as I had mentioned in my previous email. Than, You have to offline your table space index and than remove your tablespace and recreate it. , Choice is your how you want to follow the recovery, Nisar Tareen ' mizan rahman <callhimel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear Nisar, in fact i delete the physical index data file from unix os leve, using rm -f the table space index01 is there, the physical index01.dbf not in place. the owner of the data base is 'bios' Thanks mizan Nisar Tareen <ntareen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Mizan, I hope you mean that you have deleted the index tablesapce, If yes than it should not be a problem. 1 - Create new table space. 2 - Rebuild all the indexes in this new tablespace. 3 - Following script should help you . -- Nisar Tareen -- REbuild index for Oracle Financial Nov. 1998 set termout off; set pagesiz 3000; -- set feedback off; set linesiz 100; set heading off; -- set echo off; spool Run_rebuild_index.sql select 'alter index ' || owner || '.'|| index_name || ' rebuild unrecoverable tablespace user_ind_data;' from dba_indexes where owner in ( 'EDBADM') order by owner; spool off; spool rebuild_index_Trutrack.log @Run_rebuild_index.sql; spool off; Nisar Tareen mizan rahman <callhimel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear all, mistekenly deleted the index dbf from os directory, now the data base still running, how to re create bac all the indexes. please give a hand thanks in advance Mizan --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dba_gurus/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dba_gurus-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more.