RE: omf and maintaining naming conventions

  • From: Kirtikumar Deshpande <kirtikumar_deshpande@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:51:50 -0800 (PST)

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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