Um, I have to disagree, although I must admit I will not try it. Its a good way for people to get used to backup and recover. And that is never a bad thing.
-----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So - why bother? Your having problems doing it - it SHOULDN'T be done! Why test something, and if it doesn't work try to get to the bottom of it - when you should NEVER put it in to practice anyway? Your wasting precious time that could be spent reading about tuning/backup/recovery/new features etc. Give up :) Mark alter user system identified by ********* -----Original Message----- Gholam Hussain Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Joe, I am doing that on a test DB .Some guys were able to drop SYSTEM user without any probem ...But I am facing some problem while droping it .. Regards .. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Testa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:15 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: Droping System User > > sure dont drop system user. > > joe > Ahmed Gholam Hussain wrote: > > > > Hi all , > > I am unable to drop SYSTEM user in the first place ..I am getting this > error > > while trying to drop it : > > > > SQL> drop user system cascade; > > drop user system cascade > > * > > ERROR at line 1: > > ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 > > ORA-00942: table or view does not exist > > > > Please , can anybody explain to me why I am getting this error ? > > > > Regards > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 12:55 PM > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Subject: RE: Droping System User > > > > > > hi .... > > > > > > I took risk in my test DB by dropping the user 'SYSTEM'. As you > tested, > > > the same steps i repeated in mine, all are fine, until before. > > > > > > Now i shutdown my database and startup again, here the problem arises. > > > Oracle mount the database but while opening the database, the instance > has > > > been terminated by PMON. > > > > > > Sat Oct 20 10:57:45 2001 > > > PMON: terminating instance due to error 470 > > > Instance terminated by PMON, pid = 316 > > > > > > Oracle posted the following error continuosly in the alert log: > > > > > > SMON: following errors trapped and ignored: > > > ORA-00376: file 1 cannot be read at this time > > > ORA-01110: data file 1: 'D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\ORCLSVR\SYSTEM01.DBF' > > > > > > Am crusious, come to know what type of problem you have faced?.... > > > > > > Regards, > > > Nirmal > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jacques Kilchoer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:30 AM > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Subject: RE: Droping System User > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>] > > > > > > > > Dropping the SYSTEM user is not really all that traumatic. > > > > > > > > In most cases it's just a DBA account that may own some pieces you'd > > > > rather not lose, but dropping SYSTEM will not be noticed by the > users > > > > of the database. > > > > > > > > > That's the impression I get. When I looked at the objects owned by > SYSTEM > > > in my test database before the drop, none of them seemed vital. > > > > > > On the other hand, dropping sys would probably be bad, but I wasn't > able > > > to do that (insufficient privileges.) > > > Trying to drop sys tables like sys.user$ caused an ORA-00701. > > > So since I'm on a quest to wound this database, I tried this: > > > > > > SQL> delete from sys.user$ where name = 'SYS' ; > > > 1 ligne supprim�e. > > > SQL> commit ; > > > Validation effectu�e. > > > > > > So far no ill effects! > > > > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: Ahmed Gholam Hussain > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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