Dave,

I don't mind recovering mt DB at ANY POINT right now.
What I want to know is this. I recreated the control files from the dump file script. When recreating the control files, does it update the database files?.

All that has happened is that I cannot open the database.

Does that mean that my database is gone for ever?.

Right now, when I start, the database starts and mounts.

When I try to open, it says in Enterprise Manager, you should open with resetlogs. I say OK.

Then it gives me an error : ORA-01152 file 11 was not restored from a sufficiently old backup.

ORA-01110: data file 11; 'F:\opapps\octrn\ocl_app.dbf'