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    Remove Ora 8i DB from Solaris

    Hi Friends,
    Could anyone plz tell me how to remove/drop Oracle 8i database from Sun SPARC solaris. What are the steps involved...or could anyone plz give some good leads/URLs for the same .
    Thanks in Advance
    Sandy
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    If you just want to remove a database:

    1. Shutdown the database
    2. Remove all datafiles
    3. Remove ../admin/instance_name directory tree
    4. Remove init_instance_name.ora from $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
    5. Remove orapw_instance_name from $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
    6. Remove entry from /var/opt/oracle/oratab

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    Thanks a lot jovery for instant reply. Could you plz elaborate step no 3.
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    Sandy
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    The admin tree will be where you have placed your udump/bdump directory settings. For example in one of my hosts here I have the following

    $ORACLE_BASE/admin/DB1
    in this directory I have udump, bdump, cdump, pfile, create, exp

    $ORACLE_BASE/admin/DB2
    in this directory I have udump, bdump, cdump, pfile, create, exp

    So if I was removing the DB1 database I would delete all of the DB1 directory tree.

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    if u want to drop the database instance just run dbassist tool to remove all the datafiles and instance.
    it will delete files from ur filesystem also ofcourse other folders
    udump , bdump ,cdump etc... has to be removed manually . this will ease your second step in teh above list .

    if u want to remove binaries as well follow the above procedure .
    siva prakash
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    Thanks a million Jovery and Prakash.
    Sandy
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