Re: While I was dropping UNIQUE constraints on the table, I killed my process

Jay wrote:

>I was using SQL plus but it was hung for a about 20 min.
>So I killed kill the SQL plus using window task manager.
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>Now.
>If I "desc table", it hangs.
>No, I'm not dropping table.
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>Thanks.
>-Jay
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>"Anurag Varma" <avarmadba.skipthis_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>"Jay" <no_at_spam.com> wrote in message
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>>>While I was dropping UNIQUE constraints on the table, I killed my
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>process.
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>>>Now, I can not even "desc table". all other table is fine though.
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>>>Is Oracle still dropping constraints?
>>>Or rolling back dropping ?
>>>Or crashed?
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>>>Is there anyway I can check?
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>>>Please help.
>>>-Jay
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>>Are you getting any error while doing desc table?
>>How were you dropping the constraints (which tool?)?
>>If you were running a script .. did the script include dropping table
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>also?
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>>How did you kill your session?
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>>Drop comands are usually quick ... I don't understand why you had to kill
>>the session ...
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>>Post more info!
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>>Anurag
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Is this a production database? What version and edition on what hardware? Local or remote to the
SQL*Plus client?

My initial instinct is to bounce the database and query user_constraints.

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