At 03:26 PM 6/25/00 +1000, Ungod wrote:

>if there was a method to say detach a shadow in a running system rather than
>dropping it (and having it deleted) or shutting down and physically
>detaching it, then i'm sure this could be very feasible in a production
>scenario, especially if the gfix mechanism could be automated (i haven't
>delved far enough through the documentation to know if gfix is available via
>api for example).
>

GFix doesn't actually do anything other than attach a database
with a database parameter block indicating the fix operation.

It is completely feasible to detach a shadow.

Jim Starkey