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DataPump Import Fails With ORA-39083 ORA-00955 (Doc ID 2435025.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 to 18.9.0.0.0 [Release 12.1 to 18]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

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During the execution of DataPump import job the errors: ORA-39083 and ORA-00955 are hit when there are multiple UNIQUE constraints for a table (the order of the columns is different), for the same column:

ORA-39083: Object type CONSTRAINT:"<OWNER>"."<CONSTRAINT_NAME>" failed to create with error:
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object

The example below describes the scenario when the issue is hit:

 

Changes

 Database upgraded 12.1.0.2 and above.

Cause

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