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"Alter Table Enable Novalidate Foreign Key Constraint" Gets ORA-00054. (Doc ID 1271688.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After migrating from Oracle 10.2 to Oracle 11.2, a problem occurs when attempting to re-enable foreign keys on a table that was loaded.
On a fact table we disable the constraints, then load the table, then enable the constraints with the NOVALIDATE option.
Now it gets an ORA-00054 because "ENABLE NOVALIDATE constraint" needs a lock on the referenced tables (but these are currently locked by other load processes).

Changes

After upgrade from 10g to 11g

Cause

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