tablespace not turning into read only mode

2001-11-02 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi lists, I am trying to put my tablespace into read only mode(This is to take the transport tablespace export). When i typed alter tablespace xyz read only; it is just getting hung. Even after an hour the command is not being executed. There are no users accessing the objects in that

RE: tablespace not turning into read only mode

2001-11-02 Thread Johnston, Tim
When read only tablespaces first came out, the database had to have no transactions on it before you could to alter a tablespace to read only... In recent releases, Oracle has improved this significantly... But, that does not mean it is clean... If you issue a 'alter tablespace XXX read only',