Re: ORA-12988: cannot drop column

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:16:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E1255.20011220120102@fatcity.com>

Error: ORA-12988
 Text: cannot drop column from table owned by SYS

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 Cause: An attempt was made to drop a column from a system table.  Action: This action is not allowed

The solution seems to be 'do not create objects as sys'.

Drop the tables and create them as another user.

Jared

                                                                                       
                             
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I have created a DB as SYS and added columns to some of the tables as SYS. When I try to drop some of these columns I get this error.

ORA-12988: cannot drop column from table owned by SYS

How can I get around this problem?

Thanks,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
Database Conversion Lead
Sufficient System, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN

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