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Oracle 10g RMAN Database Dropping and Deregistration

Oracle 10g allows a database to be dropped and its entry removed from the RMAN catalog.

The following statement drops the entire database and removes the database files:

RMAN> drop database;

The statement below drops the entire database, removes the database files, and deletes all backup copies of the database and the archive log files:

RMAN> drop database including backups;

The two statements above drop the database and delete the database files.  However, they do not unregister the database from the RMAN catalog. The following statement will remove the database information from the RMAN catalog:

RMAN> unregister database grid;

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