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Drop selected objects (demo tables) from user_tables as sys

Dear experts and dbas,
I discovered that there is a vast number of users in our Oracle instance, that have the oracle demo tables (demo_customers, emp, salgrade etc) installed.

Since it takes a while to delete them all manually for each user, I'd like to know how I can drop these tables and correlated objects such as triggers, indizes and views at once.

Do you have a script to select a number of tables and delete all associated objects for these tables?

Please be so kind and share your knowledge with me!

Many thanks,

Sebastian

kevb258

DROP USER user CASCADE;

that normally does the job for me

skahlert2010

ASKER

Thanks kevb258!

Well, I don't want to delete the user scheme itself! In fact I just want to delete the demo tables within all user schemes. I need to be able to specify the tables to delete in order to keep the custom user tables!

Any other ideas?

Brgds!

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skahlert2010

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Hello slightwv!

Thanks for your comment! I intend to delete only tables like "DEMO_CUSTOMERS", which I am sure is an Oracle demo table. I have checked on the dba_dependencies and dba_constraints views.

My final question is if correlated constraints, triggers are also deleted when I drop the tables via dba_tables using the CASCADE option! Do you have any experience with this? Or do I need to delete these objects all manually?

Why am I asking these questions? For curiosity! I am just looking for the most efficient way to delete any objects related to demo_tables in all my schemes.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Sebastian

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

>>DEMO_CUSTOMERS", which I am sure is an Oracle demo table.

Not one I've ever heard of but Oracle has so many 'products'. They just don't typically name sample tables 'DEMO'

>>Or do I need to delete these objects all manually?

Looks like triggers are automatically deleted as well even without cascade.

I have to verify this myself so I created a simple test.

You can expand this test to include any object types in question if needed.

drop table tab1 purge;
create table tab1 (col1 char(1));

create or replace trigger tab1_trig
before insert on tab1
for each row
begin
	null;
end;
/

show errors

select object_type from user_objects where object_name='TAB1_TRIG';

drop table tab1;

select object_type from user_objects where object_name='TAB1_TRIG';

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skahlert2010

ASKER

Hello slightwv!

I just tested if triggers are deleted simultaneously with the table itself and can confirm it works!
However, the only objects that seem to be persistent are sequences. They are not deleted when the table is dropped and need to be deleted manually. The only difficulty is to find out,w hich respective sequence belongs to which table if names seq_names. If you have an idea, please don't hesitate to tell me!

I will close the question know and award you the points for your good help!

Thank you!

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

The problem is sequences are not tied to tables at the database layer. They are set up and used at the application layer. They are independent objects.

If your shop set them up one-to-one then hopefully the sequence names are tied to table names in some way.