I suspect that you had an unique index on this table on an online datafile and that this index has been dropped very recently. If this is the case, bring the datafile online, recreate the index in a safe place and you will be back to where you started from.
HTH
St?phane Faroult
Inessa Weiner wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting the following error > selecting from the view > > select count(*) from v_xxx; > > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-01135 (See ORA-01135.ora-code.com): file 5 accessed for DML/query is offline > ORA-01110 (See ORA-01110.ora-code.com): data file 5: '/db011/oradata/.dbf' > > It worked fine for are very long time even earlier today too. > The datafile is offline for many years already and we did not have > problems before. > > Please help. > > Thanks. > Inessa. >