Re: resource busy!

some other session tries to insert/delete to this table w/o commit, probably the same records if you have a PK.

possibly, if you startup and shutdown it might be recovering some of the data as well (if you had heavy activity on it).

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:22:15 +0530, "Pinto" <ucanmailme_at_india.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>When i try to insert into a table that i have from sqlplus, the session just
>hangs.
>is it because there is a full table lock on that table?
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>i tried
>lock table <table name> in exclusive mode nowait and it returns resource
>busy error.
>i took an export of the table, tried to drop the table....not able to do it.
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>finally i shutdown the database and restarted it.
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>again i tried drop table.....no luck :-( it still gives me resource busy
>error!!!
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>whats wrong with this table. i am able to select from the table but no
>update, insert or delete is possible. either can i drop that table even
>after a database restart.
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>all my work has come to a stand still because of this. can anybody pls help?
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>thanks,
>Pinto.
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We use Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Solaris 2.7 boxes remove NSPAM to email Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 13:09:23 CDT