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Errors EXP-8 ORA-904 During Export (Doc ID 1091927.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 to 12.2.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 12.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are attempting to perform an export as the SYSTEM user or a DBA. During export, the following errors occurred:

EXP-00008: ORACLE error 904 encountered
ORA-00904: : invalid identifier


When performing a trace on the export, we see that the ORA-904 error is caused by the following statement:

PARSE ERROR #9:len=302 dep=0 uid=5 oct=3 lid=5 tim=778463694169 err=904
SELECT SYNNAM, DBMS_JAVA.LONGNAME(SYNNAM), DBMS_JAVA.LONGNAME(SYNTAB), TABOWN, TABNODE, PUBLIC$, SYNOWN, SYNOWNID, TABOWNID, SYNOBJNO FROM SYS.EXU9PTS WHERE SYNOBJNO IN ( SELECT SYNOBJNO FROM SYS.EXU9TYPT WHERE TABOBJNO = :1 ) ORDER BY SYNTIME

Cause

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