Oracle-L: RE: Funny?

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:43:22 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0041C416.20020228204322@fatcity.com>

Mark,
>From a previous posting, might you be running into bug 1359472 (or something similar) "
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Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 12:51
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Came across an interesting bug in the rename command (8.1.6.0.0) (see bug 1359472). Seems if you rename a table, you can drop or truncate it without a problem. However, if you rename a table, then later issue a 'drop user userame cascade;', a bogus entry is placed into the obj$ table, an ora-0600 is returned, and neither the table nor the user can be dropped.

This is rather unfortunate, as rename is a very convenient command.

Cheers,
GC
"

Regards,
Bruce Reardon

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, 1 March 2002 11:58
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Strange. Do those users have a few tables and/or many extents?

Try dropping the tables first. I've had to do that on occasion.

Jared

"Mark Leith" <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk>
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02/28/02 04:33 PM
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Hi All,

Anyone ever seen this before? 8.1.7 on a Win2K machine.

SQL> select username,
  2 account_status
  3 from dba_users
  4 where username in ('MARK','SCOTT');

USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
------------------------------ --------------------------------
SCOTT                          OPEN
MARK                           OPEN

SQL> drop user scott cascade;
drop user scott cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

I can't drop *ANY* users! Not even logged in as SYS!

Cheers

Mark

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