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ORA-01511 ORA-01516 Renaming Datafile (Doc ID 105279.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 08, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 7.3.0.0 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 7.3.0 to 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are trying to rename or move a datafile using:

SQL> ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE '<OldPathAndName>' TO '<NewPathAndName>';

but you receive an ORA-01511 and ORA-01516 error.

ORA-01511: error in renaming log/data files

Cause: During ALTER DATABASE, an error occurred while renaming

log or data files.

Action: Check the error stack for detailed error information.

ORA-01516: nonexistent log/data file '%s'

Cause: ALTER DATABASE is attempting to rename/create a log or a data

file which is not known to the database control file.

Action: Specify the name of an existing log file.

Changes

 

Cause

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