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extension convention for datafiles

edited Sep 22, 2010 5:41AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered ✓
 Hi,
I observed that you can create a datafile without extension, e.g.:

SQL> ALTER TABLESPACE test_mare  ADD DATAFILE  'testdata12' SIZE 10M
On Windows this is seen as file of type FILE and it has no extension.
In this tablespace I also have a datafile named testdata12.dbf, and this is seen as file type .DBF.

1) What is the impact of having datafiles w/o extension? (data are retrieved and file is used till now w/o issues)
2) I searched for a document to present naming convention and possible extensions, but till now I did not find a relevant one.

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