Re: ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected

From: Bill Zakrzewski <bill_at_intactus.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:53:17 -0400
Message-Id: <69661EDB-CFE8-48C2-840A-DC314B311D99_at_intactus.com>

Have you (are you able to?) bounced the database and then attempt to drop the user?

On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:46 AM, mayur nagarsheth wrote:

> This user account has been locked since 1 month. No active connections, no active sessions, no db links, no objects are being owned by this user. I revoked all the privileges this (ACOSTA) user had just to be on safer side. But nothing works :(
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> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Andy Klock <andy_at_oracledepot.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, mayur nagarsheth <mayurpnagarsheth_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> There are no jobs existing with these users. Also, it is not on RAC.
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> That is a strange one. Not knowing how your database is set up, is it possible that ACOSTA connects periodically? Could you try locking the account, then do the delete?
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> alter user acosta account lock;
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