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Recreating a missing datafile with no backups (Doc ID 1149946.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

How to recreate a datafile that is missing at the operating system level. Missing/inaccessible files may be reported with one or more of these errors:



No backup or copy of the datafile is required. We only need the redo logs starting from the time of the datafile creation to the current point in time.

Note: plugged-in datafiles do not apply in this scenario and needs to be plugged-in again from its source.

Solution

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