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Cannot drop table

R MannSep 4 2013 — edited Sep 4 2013

Versions are Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 and SQL Developer 4.0.0.12 on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.

Hi

I'm following the CBT Nuggets SQL Fundementals training (video #11) and cannot drop a table I have just created.  The command executed and error are:

drop table newprods;

Error starting at line : 1 in command -

drop table newprods

Error report -

SQL Error: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1

ORA-20000: Cannot drop object

ORA-06512: at line 2

00604. 00000 -  "error occurred at recursive SQL level %s"

*Cause:    An error occurred while processing a recursive SQL statement

           (a statement applying to internal dictionary tables).

*Action:   If the situation described in the next error on the stack

           can be corrected, do so; otherwise contact Oracle Support.

As the HR user I created two tables and created a FK constraint between them.  After truncating the table with this FK, I am unable to drop it.  Even if I remove the FK, the error is the same.  Issing the command in SQL*Plus gives the same error.

This is the first time I have created any tables since installing Oracle on this machine and is my first attempt at dropping a table.  I have not created any sequences, triggers or views based on these newly created tables.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

This post has been answered by jgarry on Sep 4 2013
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