Re: DROP USER - cannot drop a user that is currently connected

  • From: "Alex Gorbachev" <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: md@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:08:19 +0200

Lock the account before killing it so that it can't reconnect. Also if
session is in the middle of long transaction it might take a while to
roll it back so wait a bit.

2006/4/21, Mathias Diehl <md@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi List,
>
> may I ask again for your support.
>
> I try to run automatic installer but fail with the message but can't drop the 
> user:
>
>
> drop user OPENCMS cascade;
>
> -->"cannot drop a user that is currently connected"
>
> Now I googled and found:
>
> select username, sid, serial# from v$session where lower(username)='OPENCMS';
>
> What brought:
>
> USERNAME                              SID    SERIAL#
> ------------------------------ ---------- ----------
> OPENCMS                               143        148
> OPENCMS                               144        623
> OPENCMS                               145         19
> OPENCMS                               147        378
> OPENCMS                               148        609
> OPENCMS                               158        764
>
>
>
>
> alter system kill session '143, 148';
>
> seem's to have no effect as the error persists.... any idea how to solve that 
> issue?
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> Mat
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>


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