How To Drop Database In Oracle 11 Without Using DBCA

By
Roy s

In this small tutorial, I want to show you how to drop the database without using the GUI tool DBCA

1- Export database SID if not yet Already defined

export ORACLE_SID=database

2- Connect as sysdba 

[oracle@Oracle11 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Dec 1 17:38:02 2014
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.

3- Start The database

SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 3340451840 bytes
Fixed Size 2217952 bytes
Variable Size 1828718624 bytes
Database Buffers 1493172224 bytes
Redo Buffers 16343040 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

4- Shutdown the database 

SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.

5- Start in Exclusive mode 

SQL> startup mount exclusive restrict
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 3340451840 bytes
Fixed Size 2217952 bytes
Variable Size 1828718624 bytes
Database Buffers 1493172224 bytes
Redo Buffers 16343040 bytes
Database mounted.

6- Drop the database

SQL> drop database;
Database dropped.
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
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Cheers!