Re: Question about Oracle and DBA_DIRECTORIES

  • From: Thomas Day <tomdaytwo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Subodh Deshpande <deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:52:36 -0500

So the right and left slashes are valid?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Subodh Deshpande <
deshpande.subodh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> from where did you get this...is instance and database runnign at this
> moment..on the said host..
> was it default installation, with flashbak enabled and
> configuration/connectto metalink...
> I prefer to remove the installation using delete database using dbca
>
> thanks..subodh
>
> On 11 February 2011 20:17, Thomas Day <tomdaytwo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I don't have much experience using directories in Oracle (Oracle 10 on
>> Windows Server 2003).  I've taken over an instance with very little
>> documentation.  I don't believe any of these directories below are usable.
>>
>> OWNER                          DIRECTORY_NAME
>> ------------------------------ ------------------------------
>> DIRECTORY_PATH
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> SYS                            DATA_PUMP_DIR
>> F:\oracle\product\10.2.0/admin/starsdev/dpdump/
>>
>> SYS                            WORK_DIR
>> F:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db/work
>>
>> SYS                            ORACLE_OCM_CONFIG_DIR
>> F:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db/ccr/state
>>
>>
>> NOTE the combination of left \ and right / slashes.  Maybe my predecessor
>> was trying to combine the best of Windows and Unix.
>>
>> I'm not sure what they'd be used for and I obviously can't find them under
>> Windows.  I'd like some confirmation that this is just plain bad data before
>> I blow it away.
>>
>
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