Users and Tablespaces

Question

Specs:
OS: Win 2003 Sp1
Oracle 9i - rel2 (9.2.0.5.0)
I had something like 200 users and dedicated tablespaces associated to them. Eventually, I ran into a usual very natural and obvious problem of -running low on disk space. So I took a task to free some space off by deleting some tablespaces - not realising that there will be users who will have these tablespaces assigned to them as their default tablespace.
Now, having deleted these tablespaces - I need to clear these users off - so whats the best way to do it?
What will happen to these users?

Answer 1

Eric,
The objects owned by those users were dropped with the tablespaces.Not all objects, but all segments. If users are owners of procedures/functions..., these ones still exists.
Paul,
cascade is probably redundant,That depend, for the same reason (if functions/proc exists) :
SQL> create user testuser identified by testuser;
User created.
SQL> grant create session, create procedure to testuser;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn testuser/testuser;
Connected.
SQL> create or replace procedure test_proc is begin null; end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> select default_tablespace from dba_users where username='TESTUSER';
DEFAULT_TABLESPACE
USERS
SQL> select segment_name from dba_segments where tablespace_name='USERS' and owner='TESTUSER';
no rows selected
SQL> drop user testuser;
drop user testuser
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01922: CASCADE must be specified to drop 'TESTUSER'
SQL> drop user testuser cascade;
User dropped.
SQL> @OP,
You probably need to take care with a script which drop users, in case of some users are users without being schema (not owner of any objects), and for users which aren't the owner of any segments, and which you want to keep.
Nicolas.
Message was edited by:
N. Gasparotto