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Common Causes of ORA-14097 At Exchange Partition Operation (Doc ID 1418545.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 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
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

To provide information about various frequently experienced cases that can lead to ORA-14097.

Scope

Useful to DBA's or anyone who are working with partitioned tables e.g. doing partition exchange load.

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In this Document
Purpose
Scope
Details
 CASE 1:Partitioned and Non-Partitioned tables are not structurally identical
 CASE 2:Presence of UNUSED columns
 CASE 3:Presence of Function Based Indexes
 CASE 4: When trying to exchange any partitions of existing tables with a new table created using "CREATE TABLE AS SELECT" command from the original partition table an ora-14097 error is encountered
 CASE 5: ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION fails even though both tables have the same column names and data types when a column has been added via alter table
 CASE 6: When trying to exchange any partitions of existing tables with a table from the original partition table an ora-14097 error is encountered. The VALIDATED status of the constraint on any of the table has status as "NOT VALIDATED"
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