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ORA-01940: cannot drop a connected user... No entries in v$session.

733892Mar 31 2010 — edited Apr 1 2010
Hi DBAs,

Its on Linux Ubuntu... I want to drop a user. Getting error as below. When I check for connected sessions, I find no entries in v$session. Any other alternative? Please help!!!

EGOVDBA@qadb> select * from v$version;

BANNER
----------------------------------------------------------------
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

EGOVDBA@qadb> drop user egov_integrated cascade;
drop user egov_integrated cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected


EGOVDBA@qadb> select username, osuser, machine, terminal, sid, serial# from v$session where username='EGOV_INTEGRATED';

no rows selected

EGOVDBA@qadb> drop user egov_integrated cascade;
drop user egov_integrated cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected

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