You can't safely drop a datafile from the database.

When you say 'According to Oracle, I should be able to drop a datafile
at has no data written to it', do you have a reference where we can
see that. It does not sound familiar to me.

Per your situation, since you have the datafile offline, just 
rename it via 'alter database <YOUR_DB_HERRE> rename file..',
then put it back online.

Jared


On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:08, Sherman, Paul R. wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Oracle 8.1.6.3.0, on HP-UX 11.0, using Oracle Parallel Server (OPS)
>
> According to Oracle, I should be able to drop a datafile that has no data
>   but I can not. Neither DBA studio (the garbage can stays
> 'grayed'), nor the command line (alter tablespace, with the DROP clause)
> works. I had immediately taken the datafile offline (I had typed
> sbplus_x18.dbf instead of sbplus_x16.dbf for the datafile name to use in
> case you are wondering how this turn of events happened in the first
> place), and checked all of the books, and Meta-Link. I tried a test on a
> non-production machine, no go; even taking the tablespace off-line first
> makes no difference. And of course I get errors as one node can not see the
> other nodes sbplus_x18.dbf datafile. I tried an 'alter system check
> datafiles' to see if this would make the other node happy (as the datafile
> is now off-line, this may work), but I need a solution other than exporting
> the data, rebuilding the tablespace, then importing the export.
>
> Anyone ever come across this issue ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul Sherman
> DBA
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