offline drop the datafiles at mount stage then delete the tablespaces once open On 8/2/05, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, please does any one knows how in Oracle 9.2 > How can I startup a database when the read write datafiles were > dropped and can't be recovered. > Some one forgot to leave them read only. > In that datafiles there were not information, only empty tables. > Finally this is not important. > > There is only a full cold backup without that datafiles. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l