I had/have a test DB where a number of files got corrupted. I just HAVE be able to open this DB. I am willing to sacrafice the data in the corrupted files. What are the steps to do so? It is something along the lines of STARTUP NOMOUNT ALTER TABLESPACE ???? OFFLINE; DROP TABLESPACE ?????; STARTUP MOUNT; ALTER DATABASE OPEN; I've just looked in Metalink & did not find where this procedure is documented. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l