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Query Against Remote View Causes ORA-00979: Not A GROUP BY Expression (Doc ID 1534636.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud 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

When local DB (11.2.0.3) is started with CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE, query against remote view fails with 

ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY expression

ORA-02063: preceding %s%s from %s%s

 

Problem can be reproduced when running query against remote view  in  11.2.0.2 and 11.2.0.3 remote DB ( across a db link )

 

Cause

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