Thanks for the pointer to 'asktom' - I'd forgotten about the critical fact
that writes to network shares aren't guaranteed, so it's possible (although
very unlikely) for a datafile to require media recovery from archived redo
logs in the event of a failure. Of course, this is a disaster if you don't
run in Archivelog mode!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jaroslav Smucr [mailto:[Email Address Removed] 31 January 2003 10:39
To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
Subject: Re: how to create datafile in shared network drive ??



Hi:

Along with Andrew's excellent analysis you may want to read more
about "Seriously baaaaddddd idea" of using network drives for
datafiles:

http://asktom.oracle.com/

Search/Archives
Search [network drive] Go!

Q (2): How to access .DBF files using 'shared' Win/NT network drives

Regards,
js


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