From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Aug 4 09:24:19 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j74EOJ1Y026154 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:24:19 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j74EOGIP026135 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:24:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B351A1DC96B; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:24:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24768-09; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:24:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 34C881DC930; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:24:10 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PBDePGt7w9241fE2tF4AoewsjZDyjF92vKY5r+yB2MM+BVutGz3l2YHhFLZVmxnnjARstI9/EWszpiTQtUoAJiAuw4NBr5b43jzB+q0foj/K/tGU729SjadsIrW04YJ+682pSoe0J+TVhl2hmkNkp6Vbrzb0wYl74RpC37+bO6k= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:22:12 -0500 From: Dennis Williams To: ken.payton@choicepointprg.net Subject: Re: Drop unused Column Cc: Deepak Sharma , Oracle-L In-Reply-To: <1123102979.4614.39.camel@kpaytonlap.na.choicepoint.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3650_14942488.1123165332260" References: <20050803205756.4069.qmail@web52811.mail.yahoo.com> <1123102979.4614.39.camel@kpaytonlap.na.choicepoint.net> X-archive-position: 23373 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: oracledba.williams@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracledba.williams@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_3650_14942488.1123165332260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Ken, My guess is that the Oracle kernel is slogging away. You could bounce the= =20 instance, but you might end up wrecking something worse. I think the moral= =20 to the story is to be extremely careful what commands you issue in=20 production and any command you aren't entirely comfortable with, issue it o= n=20 test first. Another alternative would have been to issue the "set unused"= =20 parameter on this command. Hang in there. Dennis Williams On 8/3/05, Ken Payton wrote:=20 >=20 > It's gone, in fact the DBA has issued the the alter table drop columns > continue command. It is currently running. Unfortunately, the table is > not accessible during this time. >=20 >=20 > ------=_Part_3650_14942488.1123165332260 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Ken,
 
My guess is that the Oracle kernel is slogging away. You could bounce = the instance, but you might end up wrecking something worse. I think the mo= ral to the story is to be extremely careful what commands you issue in prod= uction and any command you aren't entirely comfortable with, issue it on te= st first. Another alternative would have been to issue the "set unused= " parameter on this command. Hang in there.
 
Dennis Williams

 
On 8/3/05, K= en Payton <ken.payt= on@choicepointprg.net> wrote:
It's gone, in fact the DBA has i= ssued the the alter table drop columns
continue command.  It i= s currently running.  Unfortunately, the table is
not accessible during this time.


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