Re: RE: omf and maintaining naming conventions

  • From: <ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:07:04 -0500

i didnt notice that you can delete the datafile from with in oracle. I missed 
it in the docs. 
> 
> From: Pete Sharman <peter.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/02/24 Tue PM 03:49:29 EST
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: "Peter Ross. Sharman" <PETER.SHARMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: omf and maintaining naming conventions
> 
> Um, yes, I suppose so, but why would you want to?  The whole point of OMF is 
> around lowering the management requirements, and renaming the files just ups 
> the management cost again.
> 
> I haven't actually tried renaming an OMF file, so it may not even work.
> 
> Pete
> 
> "Controlling developers is like herding cats."
> 
> Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
> 
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> 
> Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Kirtikumar Deshpande
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:52 AM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: omf and maintaining naming conventions
> 
> Ah.. but again, one can always rename those... Right?
> 
> The 'drop...' does work. With OMF and non-OMF files.
> 
> - Kirti
> 
> --- "Koivu, Lisa" <Lisa.Koivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No.  OMF does not let you name datafiles.  If you read the
> > documentation, it states that it assigns a guaranteed unique name to the
> > datafile.  
> > 
> > Does 'drop tablespace including contents and datafiles' not work?  I use
> > OMF but I'm beginning to think it's a pain in the a$$.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx [mailto:ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:41 PM
> > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: omf and maintaining naming conventions
> > 
> > We have strict naming conventions for our datafiles. I want to use OMF
> > for two reasons
> > 
> > 1. pointer to one location for our datafiles
> > 2. so when I drop tablespaces, the OS file gets dropped.
> > 
> > Im hoping to be able to do this, but its not using the
> > db_file_create_dest parameter
> > 
> > create tablespace mytablespace 'mytablespace.dbf' size 5m;
> > 
> > anyway to do this? 
> > 
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