How to fix the Oracle error ORA-12017: cannot alter primary key mview ‘string’ to a rowid mview?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-12017: cannot alter primary key mview ‘string’ to a rowid mview with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-12017: cannot alter primary key mview ‘string’ to a rowid mview

Reason for the Error ORA-12017: cannot alter primary key mview ‘string’ to a rowid mview

An attempt was made to convert the primary key of a materialized view to a ROWID materialized view.

How to fix the Error ORA-12017: cannot alter primary key mview ‘string’ to a rowid mview ?

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

Conversion of a primary key materialized view to a ROWID materialized view is not supported. Create a new materialized view with ROWIDs or drop and recreate the materialized view with ROWIDs.