You need to change the REUSE to SET in the create controlfile. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Kanwar Plaha [mailto:kanwar.plaha@xxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 7:44 PM To: Dennis Williams Cc: Elliott, Patrick; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Missing datafiles Hi Dennis, Thanks for your input. Unfortunately, the process failed. When I tried recreating the controlfile to include the missing datafiles, it complained of the file headers having incorrect database name. This is because the first time the database was renamed (say from ORCL01 to ORCL02) and opened with a resetlogs. Anyway, the apps team is not considering doing the entire copy again. Thanks for all your replies. Cheers, Kanwar On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:33:41 am Dennis Williams wrote: > Kanwar, > > Based on the limited information you provided, here is another > possible route for you to consider, depending on your situation and > your success with the method that Pat has described: > If you still have the original datafiles (maybe on a backup), > 1. Create the database on a test server as you had originally > planned, including the missing datafiles. > 2. Determine the missing data. If there are full tables missing, > exp/imp them to the new database. If there are missing rows, exp them > using the query option. > 3. Import the missing data into the new database. > > Dennis Williams ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to Medtronic and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please delete this mail from your records. To view this notice in other languages you can either select the following link or manually copy and paste the link into the address bar of a web browser: http://emaildisclaimer.medtronic.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l