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ORA-29913 ORA-29400 KUP-04040 KUP-04027 using Oracle External Table In MS Windows Mapped Network Drive (Doc ID 1562004.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 02, 2022

Applies to:

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

Symptoms

On : 11.2.0.3 version, RDBMS

When attempting to select from external table on a network mapped drive,
the following error occurs.

ERROR
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ORA-29913:error IN executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400:DATABASE cartridge error
KUP-04040: FILE TEST.txt IN EXT_DIR NOT FOUND

Cause

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