Re: Index question

I think it's not possible. Query will lock an index in some way, so you cannot drop it until query releases it because DDL will not be able to accure exclusive lock on the index.
I'm not sure when query releases index lock. I would say at the end of a query but may be wrong.

Alexandre

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> Good morning,
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> Suppose there is a long running query (which already parsed) using an
index.
> Now I dropped the index. What should happened to the running query?
>
> Ofer Harel
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