It will fail and you will get an :
ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified
Been there - done that - got the mug and t-shirt..:)
HTH
Mark
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Hi
What happens if you truncate a table, or drop an index, that
is currently in use by a long running query? Does the query
fail or does the truncate/drop hang up?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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