Cannot drop queue objects - invalid username/password

Question

Folks - I'm having an issue where I cannot drop the user that owns my AQ/streams objects from an 11g database.
SYS@bwapepd1> drop user streams cascade;
drop user streams cascade
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-24008: queue table STREAMS.LB_SUBS_SOURCE_QT must be dropped first
So then I try to drop the queue -
SYS@bwapepd1> execute dbms_aqadm.drop_queue('STREAMS.LB_SUBS_SOURCE_Q');
BEGIN dbms_aqadm.drop_queue('STREAMS.LB_SUBS_SOURCE_Q'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM_SYS", line 3472
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM", line 167
ORA-06512: at line 1
So, next I tried to drop the queue table with a force -
SYS@bwapepd1> BEGIN
dbms_aqadm.drop_queue_table(
queue_table => 'STREAMS.LB_SUBS_SOURCE_QT',
force => TRUE);
END;
BEGIN
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM_SYS", line 4215
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_AQADM", line 197
ORA-06512: at line 2
I've tried as both SYS and the STREAMS owner and both get the same invalid username/password error.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thx!
rb

Answer 1

There is insufficient information here to help you but my recommendation would be:
1. Stop the queue
2. Drop the queue
3. Drop the queue table
4. Drop the user with cascade
If you are getting an insufficient privs message when logged on as SYS then you need to make sure that you are where you think you are: You are not. Perhaps you have a remote connection, for example.
PS: Is this Windows and are you using the joke that is remote desktop? That is one example of not being where you think you are.