Re: The light dawns - public synonym called SYS - how to drop?

On Jul 3, 12:08 pm, jeremy <jeremy0..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 Jul, 16:50, gazzag <gar..._at_jamms.org> wrote:
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> > On 3 Jul, 16:26, jeremy <jeremy0..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > With reference to my other post on various SYS packages being
> > > unavailable, I now know the cause. Despite my declarations of
> > > confidence, it turns out that one of our guys (a student on work
> > > placement as it happens) wanted to create a public synonym and called
> > > it "SYS".
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> > > 2 things
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> > > 1) am surprised that Oracle (10gR2) didn't object to this
> > > 2) we are unable to drop the synonym
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> > > 16:25:05 SQL> drop public synonym sys;
> > > drop public synonym sys
> > > *
> > > ERROR at line 1:
> > > ORA-04098: trigger 'XDB.XDB_PI_TRIG' is invalid and failed re-
> > > validation
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> > > Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
> > > 16:25:58 SQL>
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> > > Anyone know how to tidy up this mess?
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> > Ouch!  What about:
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> > DROP PUBLIC SYNONYM "PUBLIC.SYS";
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> Following sorted it out:
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> 16:57:13 SQL> drop public synonym sys force;
> drop public synonym sys force
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-04098: trigger 'XDB.XDB_PI_TRIG' is invalid and failed re-
> validation
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> Elapsed: 00:00:00.49
> 16:57:26 SQL> alter trigger XDB.XDB_PI_TRIG disable;
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> Trigger altered.
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> Elapsed: 00:00:00.15
> 16:57:28 SQL> drop public synonym sys force;
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> Synonym dropped.
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> Elapsed: 00:00:00.58
> 16:57:32 SQL> alter trigger XDB.XDB_PI_TRIG enable;
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> Trigger altered.
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> Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
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> After which everything was fine again.
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Jeremy, thank you for the follow-up solution post. Someone may actually query the archives before posting and find a solution to their problem; this does happen on occassion.

• Mark D Powell --