ORA-23515: Materialized Views and/or Their Indices Exist in the Tablespace (Doc ID 1624253.1)

Last updated on JULY 07, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Drop tablespace failed with below error :

 SQL> DROP TABLESPACE APPS_TS_TX_DATA INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;
DROP TABLESPACE APPS_TS_TX_DATA INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-23515: materialized views and/or their indices exist in the tablespace

Cause

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