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Procedures to Remove Orphan AQ Objects Which Fail to Drop via DBMS_AQADM (Doc ID 236898.1)

Last updated on MAY 08, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 to 9.2.0.8 [Release 8.1.7 to 9.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.


Purpose

The purpose of this article is to provide procedures, which remove damaged Advanced Queuing (AQ)tables and Queues for pre-10g databases. By damaged we mean that the AQ objects cannot be removed via the means discussed in the Supported Method for dropping AQ Tables section below.

Scope

This article is intended for anyone who needs to remove damaged AQ objects in pre-10g databases. From 10.1 onwards the drop_queue_table procedure has been made more robust and should handle most if not all situations that the following procedures handle when using the force option as discussed below.

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Purpose
Scope
Details
 Typical scenarios when a queue table/queue or user cannot be dropped
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