Trying to Attach Files to an Oracle Database Engine

My client performed a complete backup of their Oracle folder (Windows). They simply used Windows Explorer by dragging and dropping the folder on to an external drive. Now that I have the files, I need to know how to "attach" them to my local Oracle database engine. I need to do this so that I can add a new Data Connection in Visual Studio. Or, if I login to the database server, I want to see my client's databases.
Can anyone help me?r

user9107810 wrote:
I am used to using SQL Server, which allows you to simply attach database files to a database. I did read some documentation on restoring a database file, but it seemed complicated. Complicated only because you are tying to see it as something it isn't. Please don't take that as a criticism. It's just a statement of fact because you are trying to apply SQL Server thinking to Oracle. Same as trying to apply diesel engine thinking to a gasoline engine.
I thought that there might be a more straight forward solution.
SQL Server isn't Oracle ... by any stretch of the imagination. Even the term "database" refers to totally different concepts. What SQL Server calls a 'database', Oracle calls a 'schema' -- and even that is just a rough approximation.
What you describe in SQL Server sounds a lot like what Oracle would call a 'transportable tablespace', but again that would be an approximation, not an exact one-for-one literal translation.
Where do I get this information? Do you recommend a book or website?The entire Oracle doc set is at tahiti.oracle.com

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