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Tablespace still online and active after deletion of sole datafile

edited Feb 8, 2012 10:37PM in Database Backup and Recovery (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered
I'm running Oracle 11.2.0.2 and have deleted the sole datafile for a tablespace.  I have been able to continue creating tables, dropping tables, inserting, updating, selecting data out of the tablespace, and still the database does not return an error.  I have issued a checkpoint several times, have switched logs several times, and the tablespace is still online and active.  I've executed an RMAN backup of the tablespace, and it fails as expected with an "ORA-17500: ODM err:File does not exist" error.  Yet further usage of the tablespace still does not yeild the same error.  I have been trying to get

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