Oracle DROP DATABASE LINK

Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Oracle DROP DATABASE LINK statement to remove a database link from the database.

Introduction to the Oracle DROP DATABASE LINK statement

The DROP DATABASE LINK statement allows you to drop a database link from the database. Here is the syntax of the DROP DATABASE LINK statement:

DROP DATABASE LINK dblink;
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this syntax, you specify the name of the database link ( dblink) that you want to remove after the DROP DATABASE LINK keywords.

The DROP DATABASE LINK statement can remove a private database link. To remove a public database link, you add the PUBLIC keyword as shown in the following statement:

DROP PUBLIC DATABASE LINK dblink;
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

Note that to drop a public database link, you need to have the DROP PUBLIC DATABASE DATABASE LINK system privilege.

Restrictions of the DROP DATABASE LINK statement:

• First, you cannot drop a database link in a schema of another user.
• Second, you cannot qualify the dblink with the name of a schema like: schema.dblink because Oracle will interpret schema.dblink as the entire name of a database link in your own schema. Notice that the name of a database link can contain periods (.)

Oracle DROP DATABASE LINK statement example

This example removes the SALES private database link created in the CREATE DATABASE LINK tutorial:

DROP DATABASE LINK sales;
Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this tutorial, you have learned how to the Oracle DROP DATABASE LINK statement to remove a database link from the database.