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Re: Dropping everything from an Oracle database

fabiyiolawale — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:40:17 -0000

I'm loving this..I am creating a database for an application called POSSE..Everytime i miss out a step or an error occur,i'll need to do that back again(i mean delete the DB and create a new 1)..now diz just helped me..nice work mate..cheers

Re: Dropping everything from an Oracle database

alex — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:33:41 -0000

or you can drop specific users and all it's objects using:

DROP USER <user_name> CASCADE

Re: Dropping everything from an Oracle database

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:47:09 -0000

This is a vary bad idea. There are a number of schemas besides SYS and SYSTEM that need to be intact to have a usable database. It takes about 30 seconds to make a new blank database, much faster then dropping everything. Remove the database, rebuild it and reload your export.

Re: Dropping everything from an Oracle database

u02sgb — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:22:55 -0000

Ok, sorry about that :oops: . I used to use this to wipe a database before reloading a backup. I've changed it so your no longer logging in as sys. I think the original way probably wiped out your data dictionary, Doh!

Re: Dropping everything from an Oracle database

ptigga — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:37:17 -0000

Just a warning: On Oracle 10g this made my database completely unusable. I couldn't even login using SYSDBA. I could stop it but not start it again.

It didn't matter too much because it was a development database that I wanted to drop the data from, but it did put the database in such a state that I couldn't reload a new file into it using imp.

Instead I've had to use the Database Configuration Assistant to create a new blank database again.