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Re: Strange user account problem

From: justme <nobody_at_rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:28:46 GMT
Message-ID: <i7%m9.172576$8b1.99873@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>


drop user "song";

"Rahul Tikekar" <TikekarR_at_sou.edu> wrote in message news:anhsd5$r3v$1_at_news.orst.edu...
> Using Oracle 8.1.5.
>
> Somehow I created a user 'song' (lowercase). Now I'd
> like to delete this user. So I say
> drop user song;
>
> Oracle replies:
> ORA-01918: user 'SONG' does not exist
>
> So Oracle is converting the user name to upper case and
> looking for SONG. But a user with the lower case song does
> exits. How do I tell Oracle to look for the lower case song
> and not SONG?
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Rahul Tikekar
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 12:28:46 CDT

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