difficulty dropping user
difficulty dropping user
(OP)
Hello - Been a while since I had to do this, and I cannot figure out what I am missing. I need to drop a user...
Here's the scenario...
use BTEQ to create user...
create user bozo from DBC as
permanent = 20000
,password = byteme
,spool = 40000
,fallback protection
,dual after journal
,default journal table = tbl_randyjournals
,account = '$bozo';
*** User has been created.
*** Total elapsed time was 2 seconds.
As you can see, the user is created fine. BTW, logged in
as DBC when I did this.
So I created some tables in bozo, finished up and want to drop bozo and return the space...here is what I did.
modify user bozo as no fallback protection
; modify user bozo as no journal
; modify user bozo as no after journal
; delete user bozo all
;
(up to this point all operations succeed...)
drop user bozo
;
(throws result 3552 - cannot drop databases with tables, journal tables, views or macros)
hmmm...
- there are no views associated with user bozo, never created any
- there are no macros associated with user bozo, never created any
- there are no tables associated with user bozo - I dropped them
- the modify user statements appear to have removed the journals
- the delete user statement should have removed it, all that remains is the drop to take bozo out of the dictionary,
what am I missing?
Here's the scenario...
use BTEQ to create user...
create user bozo from DBC as
permanent = 20000
,password = byteme
,spool = 40000
,fallback protection
,dual after journal
,default journal table = tbl_randyjournals
,account = '$bozo';
*** User has been created.
*** Total elapsed time was 2 seconds.
As you can see, the user is created fine. BTW, logged in
as DBC when I did this.
So I created some tables in bozo, finished up and want to drop bozo and return the space...here is what I did.
modify user bozo as no fallback protection
; modify user bozo as no journal
; modify user bozo as no after journal
; delete user bozo all
;
(up to this point all operations succeed...)
drop user bozo
;
(throws result 3552 - cannot drop databases with tables, journal tables, views or macros)
hmmm...
- there are no views associated with user bozo, never created any
- there are no macros associated with user bozo, never created any
- there are no tables associated with user bozo - I dropped them
- the modify user statements appear to have removed the journals
- the delete user statement should have removed it, all that remains is the drop to take bozo out of the dictionary,
what am I missing?
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RE: difficulty dropping user
"the modify user statements appear to have removed the journals"
No, they didn't. There was an error, because MODIFY USER is DDL and you can't submit DDL within a multistatement, just read the error message
And even if it worked, the journal would still be there;
"modify user bozo as no journal" just sets a new default
"delete user bozo all" just drop tables/views/..., but no journal
Try this:
modify user bozo as DROP DEFAULT JOURNAL TABLE;
drop user bozo;
Dieter
RE: difficulty dropping user
Actually it was my bad formatting the statements as a
multi-statement - when I went back to the original
work, I had issued them as individual modify statements, so
there was no error message.
However, your tip in the 'try this' part makes sense and
kindled a flame in a long-unused part of my brain.
Geesh - go away for 3 years and work on SQL Server instead
full time - it really messes with the brain cells. Go figure.
Thanks again, I'll give it a try and let you know what happened !!
Randy
RE: difficulty dropping user
Thanks again!