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Cannot drop a table (merged 3) [message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 10:28

eagyeman
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Registered: May 2007

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Oracle version is 10.2.0.1.0 on Linux.

I am trying to drop a table and I have issued both commands below to drop it which is a straigth forward drop, but none works.

drop table test cascade constraints;
drop table test;

It hangs for a long time. It is a small table with only about 30 records in it. When i issue any commnad against the table it hangs -- select, delete, update. There is nothing written in the alert log file to indicate a corruption or anything. when I check the status in dba_tables, it shows it as valid. Is there anyway I can zap this table and recreate it.

Is there anyway to do this?

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Re: Cannot drop a table [message #382692 is a reply to message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 10:35

BlackSwan
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I suspect that a session did a DML against this table & has not yet issued a COMMIT or ROLLBACK.
Oracle won't drop a table which has a pending transaction against it.

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[Updated on: Fri, 23 January 2009 10:35]

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Re: Drop Table [message #382694 is a reply to message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 10:37

BlackSwan
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STOP reposting same question.
Once is enough!

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Re: Drop Table [message #382696 is a reply to message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 10:42

Michel Cadot
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Activate a trace on the session to know on what it is waiting.
You can also query v$session_wait.

Regards
Michel

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Re: Unable to drop table [message #382704 is a reply to message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 11:39

BlackSwan
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STOP reposting same problem!

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Re: Unable to drop table [message #382705 is a reply to message #382688]

Fri, 23 January 2009 11:45

Michel Cadot
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Now you are spamming with your question.
Follow what has been said.
I lock the topic.

Regards
Michel

[Updated on: Fri, 23 January 2009 11:46]

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Re: Unable to drop table [message #382761 is a reply to message #382705]

Sat, 24 January 2009 07:18

Barbara Boehmer
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topic unlocked, so poster can continue in this thread instead of starting another one

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Re: Unable to drop table [message #382767 is a reply to message #382761]

Sat, 24 January 2009 09:00

Michel Cadot
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He also could PM or report the message to get the topic unlocked.

Regards
Michel

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