Thanks Toby,

I'll research your suggestions.

Lowell,

Thanks for your reply. I reread my original post and I see I was unclear. When I wrote separate instance I was implying that this was a separate...

Sarab,

Thanks for your response. This is a non-critical production system, so I will be able to recycle the instance in the off hours today. I'll also look into...

I think you both raise very interesting points. My situation is unique in that this person is an R&D engineer, not in IT at all. They prefer to...

Thank you all for your suggestions. A more senior DBA here advised me that I was overthinking this problem. He suggested I just delete the user and...

Bru,

Thanks for the quick reply. This does not seem to help me. I feel like the reason for that is because this permission is not granted...

Thanks for your response. It appears as though this was an issue with two queries running against the row simulaneously and blocking the commit from occurring. I killed...