ORA-28000: the account is locked

Problem: ORA-28000: the account is locked
Cause: This happens for reasons galore. Some of them being as follows:

• if bad password is provided more than the permissible number of times, then the account gets locked
• the DBA has locked the specific account for some reason

Solution: You can request the administrator to unlock the account :P He would fire a query something like the one below:
SQL> alter user scott identified by tiger account unlock;

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