I just want to add one thing ,for windows you have to remove existing
services using oradim.

Regards
Rajendra
Tata Motors
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From: Siddegowda, Kempe Gowda (Cognizant)
[mailto:[Email Address Removed] Friday, February 27, 2004 12:40 PM
To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
Subject: RE: how do i drop an oracle DB (8i on UNIX) .....urgent


Windows go to dbca and drop the database
Unix take list of all datafiles,logfiles and cotrolfiles,shutdown the
database remove the files at os level..ur db gone


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From: Ayodeji Orimisan [mailto:[Email Address Removed]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:34 PM
To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
Subject: how do i drop an oracle DB (8i on UNIX) .....urgent


i created a database with an american character set, but i ought to have
created it with west european characterset.

how do i drop the database i already created.

thankx.

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