No, backups do not lock anything inside the database; it has absolutely
nothing to do with backups or BMC. A user's database session was performing
DML or DDL on the table, plain and simple. Database sessions can persist
after the user session has been killed, detected by querying V$SESSION.
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Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:14 PM
> Hi all.
>
> Yeaterday we were tyring to rename a table. The rename
> command failed with
>
> ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT
> specified
>
> Could that error somewhow be a result of a hot backup
> running at the same time via BMC. I know that the hot
> backup doesn't lock table for DML, but this is a DDL
> command. Is there any scenario that can explain this
> error by the BMC backup? Our version of Oracle is
> 8.1.7. Afaik no transactions after the table being
> renamed have been running at the time
>
> thanks
>
> Gene
>
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