Metalink has a document giving step by step procedures for doing this. Sorry, I don't have the docid at my fingertips. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Finn Jorgensen Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:11 PM To: genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: rename a database Yep, that's still how it's done. I just did one today :) Finn On 5/19/08, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello : > > > I need to rename an existing database (10.2.3). In the past (about 10 years > ago and oracle 7) I was able to take the create controlfile command > (via alter database rebuild controlfile to trace), replace the filesystem > name and the database name with a new instance name, rename > all the filesystems accordingly, execute the create controlfile command and > be done. > > As I said I have not done it in about 10 years. Can this still be done like > that? Am I missing anything? > > thank you > > Gene Gurevich > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l