On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Gregory Conron wrote:
>unless a user is running a query or transaction against the data in
> the partition (the query/transaction will fail).
d'oh! must correct myself - if a user is running a transaction against the
data, the alter table drop will fail as it will not be able to obtain an
exclusive lock.
Cheers,
GC
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