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Incident
DBA tried to add a datafile to database, but misnamed it and issued the following command

alter database datafile ‘/opt/oracle/emtprod/u18/oradata/EMTDB/mtm_data3_03_EMTDB.dbf’ offline drop;

Copied the file to it’s new location/name and then issued the following

alter database rename file ‘/opt/oracle/emtprod/u18/oradata/EMTDB/mtm_data3_03_EMTDB.dbf’
to ‘/opt/oracle/emtprod/u20/oradata/EMTDB/mtm_data2_04_EMTDB.dbf’;

When dba made the datafile online …

alter database datafile ‘/opt/oracle/emtprod/u20/oradata/EMTDB/mtm_data2_04_EMTDB.dbf’ online;

DBA received the following error

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01113: file 26 needs media recovery
ORA-01110: data file 26: ‘/opt/oracle/emtprod/u20/oradata/EMTDB/mtm_data2_04_EMTDB.dbf’

Solution:

If this happened just a few minutes ago, Just needed to do
SQL> alter database recover datafile ……

Brought file back into offline mode and then you will be able to online the file.

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