Someone is accessing the table that you are trying to alter it. If
someone is accessing the table while you're trying to alter it, you will
get the error below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nagarajan VinodhKumar
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x43162121.[Email address protected]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:33 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Alter table : Help

Hi all ,

While trying to alter the table i got this error . what can i do to
get rid of this.

alter table jcal drop column end_date
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified



Thanks & Regards
vinodh.

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