Please help me on this "creating database manually"

Question

1) copied all datafiles and init.ora file from source and placed in target folder 2)edit the init.ora file, change the db_name and location of the controlfile
3)
C:\>set oracle_sid=jeeno1
C:\>sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Apr
11 06:44:28 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect / as sysdba;
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount
pfile='C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\admin\jeeno\pfile\jeenoinit.ora'
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 171966464 bytes
Fixed Size 787988 bytes
Variable Size 145750508 bytes
Database Buffers 25165824 bytes
Redo Buffers 262144 bytes
SQL> CREATE CONTROLFILE set DATABASE "jeeno1"
RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG
2 MAXLOGFILES 16
3 MAXLOGMEMBERS 3
4 MAXDATAFILES 100
5 MAXINSTANCES 8
6 MAXLOGHISTORY 454
7 LOGFILE
8 GROUP 1
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\REDO01.LOG'
SIZE 10M,
9 GROUP 2
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\REDO02.LOG'
SIZE 10M,
10 GROUP 3
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\REDO03.LOG'
SIZE 10M
11 -- STANDBY LOGFILE
12 DATAFILE
13
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\SYSTEM01.DBF',
14
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\UNDOTBS01.DBF',
15
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\SYSAUX01.DBF',
16
'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\jeeno\USERS01.DBF'
17 CHARACTER SET WE8MSWIN1252
18 ;
Control file created.
SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
alter database open resetlogs
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01194: file 1 needs more recovery to be consistent
ORA-01110: data file 1: 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\10.1.0\ORADATA\JEENO\SYSTEM01.DBF'

Answer 1

Hi,
From the error message it seems that there is not enough info for recovery. Probably your redo log was overwritten with new information, but currently you need info that was overwritten. If you have not used ARCHIVELOG mode, than overwritten redo info is lost.
Regards,
Andrejus