ORA-3113 / ORA-00060 When Converting Large Non-Partitioned Table To A Partitioned Table (Doc ID 2997898.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

On : 19.19.0.0.0 version, RDBMS

When attempting to alter table
the following error is observed by the foreground process.

ERROR
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ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
Process ID: 3505134
Session ID: 364 Serial number: 38489

STEPS
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ALTER TABLE TEST_TABLE
  PARTITION BY RANGE (COL1_LASTUPDATE)
  INTERVAL (NUMTOYMINTERVAL (1,'MONTH'))
 ( partition part_old values less than (to_date('01-JAN-2016','DD-MON-YYYY') ));

Changes

Cause

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