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Remove old SID from system

IfYouAreCallingMe_YouMustBeScrewedFeb 3 2017 — edited Feb 24 2017

Hi All,

As usual I'm clearing another user's mess but his one has me stumped.

An non-Prod 12.1.0.2 database lost the storage containing the DB files, and rather than try to recover the files, the DB owner used RMAN to drop the database (the idea being that they'd recreate it from scratch).

RMAN did drop the DB files, but the SID still reports as being active when the tried to run DBCA again to add it.

I can't run DBCA -deleteDatabase to delete the DB because it's not mounted, and it can't be mounted because the owner blew away the files (ControlFiles the lot)

So how can I manually ensure that all references to the SID are removed?

Thanks in advance
This post has been answered by Gbenga Ajakaye on Feb 3 2017
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