Re: Droping System User

sure dont drop system user.

joe
Ahmed Gholam Hussain wrote:
>
> Hi all ,
> I am unable to drop SYSTEM user in the first place ..I am getting this error
> while trying to drop it :
>
> SQL> drop user system cascade;
> drop user system cascade
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
> ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
>
> Please , can anybody explain to me why I am getting this error ?
>
> Regards
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran [SMTP:NIRMALK_at_qtel.com.qa]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 12:55 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Droping System User
> >
> > hi ....
> >
> > I took risk in my test DB by dropping the user 'SYSTEM'. As you tested,
> > the same steps i repeated in mine, all are fine, until before.
> >
> > Now i shutdown my database and startup again, here the problem arises.
> > Oracle mount the database but while opening the database, the instance has
> > been terminated by PMON.
> >
> > Sat Oct 20 10:57:45 2001
> > PMON: terminating instance due to error 470
> > Instance terminated by PMON, pid = 316
> >
> > Oracle posted the following error continuosly in the alert log:
> >
> > SMON: following errors trapped and ignored:
> > ORA-00376: file 1 cannot be read at this time
> > ORA-01110: data file 1: 'D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCLSVR\SYSTEM01.DBF'
> >
> > Am crusious, come to know what type of problem you have faced?....
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nirmal
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacques Kilchoer [SMTP:Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:30 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Droping System User
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [ < <mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>>]
> > >
> > > Dropping the SYSTEM user is not really all that traumatic.
> > >
> > > In most cases it's just a DBA account that may own some pieces you'd
> > > rather not lose, but dropping SYSTEM will not be noticed by the users
> > > of the database.
> >
> >
> > That's the impression I get. When I looked at the objects owned by SYSTEM
> > in my test database before the drop, none of them seemed vital.
> >
> > On the other hand, dropping sys would probably be bad, but I wasn't able
> > to do that (insufficient privileges.)
> > Trying to drop sys tables like sys.user$ caused an ORA-00701.
> > So since I'm on a quest to wound this database, I tried this:
> >
> > SQL> delete from sys.user$ where name = 'SYS' ;
> > 1 ligne supprimée.
> > SQL> commit ;
> > Validation effectuée.
> >
> > So far no ill effects!
> >
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> Author: Ahmed Gholam Hussain
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