Re: Can't drop a table, even as sysdba

From: Norman Dunbar <oracle_at_dunbar-it.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:54:52 +0100
Message-ID: <501B75BC.1070103_at_dunbar-it.co.uk>



Morning Thomas,

On 02/08/12 18:08, Thomas Day wrote:
> Looked for triggers with just DROP. Fifteen of them. Disabled one-by-one.
> The bad boy was MDSYS SDO_GEOR_DROP_USER. Not sure why this was affecting
> the drop or truncate of an existing table. When I disabled this things
> seemed to work fine. I'm still investigating.

I've had trouble with that one myself. It's part of Spatial (and maybe Locator aka Spatial Light.)

I have not investigated very much, but it appears that when Spatial/Locator is installed, dropping a table requires a bit of checking around to make sure any Spatial stuff (in MDSYS) is also cleaned out properly.

I don't understand how your "junk" table was affected the way it was though, that makes no sense. I'm sure a 10046 (or equivalent) trace would probably help.

Cheers,
Norm.

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