How to recreate an oracle 9i database from backup files (ora files)
I'm a developer so I'm a little lost in the DBA world.  Our systems guys have given me a backup of an Oracle 9i database.  I have installed oracle 9i on my pc and am now trying to 'import' the backup files so I have a normal database to work with.

The backup folder has on SNCF[SID].ora file and around 150 [SID]-[Date]-[counter]-[soemnumber].ora files.  The question is, how do I get this data into oracle so I can query it through sql?

I have gotten as far as creating a database which matches the SID of the backed up database.  Google tells me that I need to go into rman and run "database restore."  But how does it know where the backfiles are located?

Any ideas?  Thanks.
How to recreate an oracle 9i database from backup files (ora files)
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I'm a developer so I'm a little lost in the DBA world.  Our systems guys have given me a backup of an Oracle 9i database.  I have installed oracle 9i on my pc and am now trying to 'import' the backup files so I have a normal database to work with.

The backup folder has on SNCF[SID].ora file and around 150 [SID]-[Date]-[counter]-[soemnumber].ora files.  The question is, how do I get this data into oracle so I can query it through sql?

I have gotten as far as creating a database which matches the SID of the backed up database.  Google tells me that I need to go into rman and run "database restore."  But how does it know where the backfiles are located?

Any ideas?  Thanks.