Re: The light dawns - public synonym called SYS - how to drop?

On 3 Jul, 16:26, jeremy <jeremy0..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> With reference to my other post on various SYS packages being
> unavailable, I now know the cause. Despite my declarations of
> confidence, it turns out that one of our guys (a student on work
> placement as it happens) wanted to create a public synonym and called
> it "SYS".
>
> 2 things
>
> 1) am surprised that Oracle (10gR2) didn't object to this
> 2) we are unable to drop the synonym
>
> 16:25:05 SQL> drop public synonym sys;
> drop public synonym sys
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-04098: trigger 'XDB.XDB_PI_TRIG' is invalid and failed re-
> validation
>
> Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
> 16:25:58 SQL>
>
> Anyone know how to tidy up this mess?
>
> --
> jeremy

Ouch! What about:

DROP PUBLIC SYNONYM "PUBLIC.SYS"; HTH -g Received on Thu Jul 03 2008 - 10:50:46 CDT