DBID without Select OR RMAN

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Database
You can retive database id without Using v$view this way is useful when you losing your control file or data file and you need to know your DBID :

connect / as sysdba
SQL> startup nomount;
 
 
SQL> alter system dump datafile '/home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf' block min 1 block max 2;
 
System altered.
 
tail -f /home/oracle/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_10680.trc
...
Start dump data block from file /home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf minblk 1 maxblk 2
 V10 STYLE FILE HEADER:
        Compatibility Vsn = 186646528=0xb200000
        Db ID=1229390655=0x4947033f, Db Name='ORCL'
... 
SQL>  alter system dump datafile '/home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf'  block min 1 block max 2;
 
System altered.
 
tail -f /home/oracle/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_10680.trc
...
Start dump data block from file /home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf minblk 1 maxblk 2
 V10 STYLE FILE HEADER:
        Compatibility Vsn = 186646528=0xb200000
        Db ID=1229390655=0x4947033f, Db Name='ORCL'

Thank you
Osama Mustafa

Published by Osama Mustafa

Osama considered as one of the leaders in Cloud technology, DevOps and database in the Middle-East. I have more than ten years of experience within the industry. moreover, certfied 4x AWS , 4x Azure and 6x OCI, have also obtained database certifications for multiple providers. In addition to having experience with Oracle database and Oracle products, such as middle-ware, OID, OAM and OIM, I have gained substantial knowledge with different databases. Currently, I am architecting and implementing Cloud and DevOps. On top of that, I'm providing solutions for companies that allow them to implement the solutions and to follow the best practices.

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