Re: ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected

  • From: mayur nagarsheth <mayurpnagarsheth@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Bill Zakrzewski <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:57:17 -0500

Bouncing is mot possible as it is a production database.

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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Bill Zakrzewski <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Have you (are you able to?) bounced the database and then attempt to drop
> the user?
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:46 AM, mayur nagarsheth wrote:
>
> This user account has been locked since 1 month. No active connections, no
> active sessions, no db links, no objects are being owned by this user. I
> revoked all the privileges this (ACOSTA) user had just to be on safer side.
> But nothing works :(
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Andy Klock <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, mayur nagarsheth <
>> mayurpnagarsheth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> There are no jobs existing with these users. Also, it is not on RAC.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That is a strange one.  Not knowing how your database is set up, is it
>> possible that ACOSTA connects periodically?  Could you try locking the
>> account, then do the delete?
>>
>> alter user acosta account lock;
>>
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> Mayur Nagarsheth
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