How to fix the Oracle error ORA-04097: DDL conflict while trying to drop or alter a trigger?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-04097: DDL conflict while trying to drop or alter a trigger with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-04097: DDL conflict while trying to drop or alter a trigger

Reason for the Error ORA-04097: DDL conflict while trying to drop or alter a trigger

An attempt was made to concurrently perform two DDL operations on a trigger or trigger table.

How to fix the Error ORA-04097: DDL conflict while trying to drop or alter a trigger ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Investigate the new state of the trigger and retry the DDL operation, if still appropriate.