Hi Mark,
Regarding your problem with dropping a user, I've seen something like that
before - this was 817 on Solaris, and the DBA there was getting a ORA-00942
at recursive SQL when trying any CTAS.
I ran a trace on the statement and found that Oracle was looking for a
sys.snap$.... table which didn't exist (don't remember the name now). I also
found that this database didn't have a single sys.snap$ table while another
one on the same release had about 7-8. Later heard from the DBA that they
weren't able to get replication working on the database either. Luckily for
him, this was a test instance and hence not a serious issue.....but I still
never found out why those tables were missing.
I had suggesting recreating the tables from sql.bsq (figured the db was
knackered anyway, might as well try it), but I don't think he ever got
around to doing it.
I'd be very interested to know if a trace reveals anything to you...
Hope this helps a bit..
Mandar.
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Never mind all - I "cheated" and used the "Database Configuration Assistant"
to drop and create a new one.. ;P
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Hi All,
I have *finally* got time to drop one of our test instances and recreate it
(tomorrow), and wanted some feedback from all of you as to the best way to
go around this?
The current instance is 8.1.7. on a Win2K machine.. The reason that I'm
dropping/recreating (some of you may remember this) is because I simply
*CANNOT* drop a user:
sales>connect sys/sys@sales
Connected.
sales>select username, password
2 from dba_users
3 where username = 'SCOTT';
USERNAME PASSWORD
------------------------------ ------------------------------
SCOTT F894844C34402B67
sales>drop user scott cascade;
drop user scott cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
LOL!
If anybody has seen this since I last asked the list, and has a solution,
please speak up now as this will save me the time of dropping/recreating the
instance..
Moving on - what would you consider the best approach to dropping and
recreating an instance on a Win32 platform? In the past (as these are purely
test instances) I have simply blasted the whole directories (Oracle and
all), then deleted any mention of "Oracle" within the registry (after taking
a backup of course), and moved on to a completely fresh install (usually to
go to a higher version). This time though, I would like to keep 8.1.7
installed on this box, and would prefer to keep Oracle installed, and simply
drop and recreate a fresh (empty) instance..
How would you go about doing this?
Advanced thanks.
Mark
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