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ORA-14097: Column Type Or Size Mismatch In ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION (Doc ID 2240439.1)

Last updated on JUNE 27, 2023

Applies to:

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

Symptoms

 You have created what appears to be an identical table but still getting:

 

alter table <TABLE NAME> exchange partition <PARTITION NAME>  with table <EXCHANGE TABLE> WITHOUT VALIDATION;

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-14097: column type or size mismatch in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION

Same error with or  without VALIDATION.

Changes

 None

Cause

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