Difference between revisions of "Delete / drop database"
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Check in Registry to make sure entries have gone from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_<home> | Check in Registry to make sure entries have gone from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_<home> | ||
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| − | + | * Clean up RMAN repository | |
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rman target sys/sys@DBTOGO catalog rman/rman@rmancat | rman target sys/sys@DBTOGO catalog rman/rman@rmancat | ||
RMAN> unregister database; | RMAN> unregister database; | ||
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| − | + | * Drop the database (using the silent option of dbca) | |
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| + | * Delete database references manually from other places | ||
| + | ** ${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin/tnsnames.ora (possibly on many hosts) | ||
| + | ** ${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin/listener.ora (probably only on this host) | ||
| + | ** stop / restart the listener if this db was attached to a general listener | ||
| + | ** remove entry from /etc/oratab | ||
| + | * Is it a clustered database? | ||
| + | If so, remove it from the Veritas (Solaris) or HACMP (AIX) configuration. | ||
| + | * Remove from any monitoring software (Grid, 3rd party) | ||
| + | * Clean any cleanup script where it may be hard-coded (Eek!) | ||
| + | * Delete archivelog directory | ||
| + | * Remove the database definition from backup software | ||
Revision as of 14:31, 20 September 2017
Contents
Windows
Check where the ORACLE_HOME for this instance is
Start:Run... services.msc
Double click on OracleService<SID>, the first part of "Path to executable" is the home or regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE See list of homes
Find location of files to delete
Connect as sys and
select name from v$datafile; select member from v$logfile; show parameter control show parameter dump show parameter archive_dest
set ORACLE_HOME=<oracle home> oradim -delete -sid <SID>
*Clean up database files: delete %ORACLE_HOME%\database\PWD<SID>.ora and any pfile, spfile and .dat files Delete the files and directories shown by above queries
Check in Registry to make sure entries have gone from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_<home>
Unix
- Clean up RMAN repository
rman target sys/sys@DBTOGO catalog rman/rman@rmancat RMAN> unregister database;
- Drop the database (using the silent option of dbca)
. oraenv DBTOGO dbca -silent -deleteDatabase -sourceDB DBTOGO Connecting to database 4% complete … 100% complete
- Delete database references manually from other places
- ${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin/tnsnames.ora (possibly on many hosts)
- ${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin/listener.ora (probably only on this host)
- stop / restart the listener if this db was attached to a general listener
- remove entry from /etc/oratab
- Is it a clustered database?
If so, remove it from the Veritas (Solaris) or HACMP (AIX) configuration.
- Remove from any monitoring software (Grid, 3rd party)
- Clean any cleanup script where it may be hard-coded (Eek!)
- Delete archivelog directory
- Remove the database definition from backup software
