How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14060: data type or length of a table partitioning column may not be changed?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14060: data type or length of a table partitioning column may not be changed with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14060: data type or length of a table partitioning column may not be changed

Reason for the Error ORA-14060: data type or length of a table partitioning column may not be changed

User issued ALTER TABLE statement attempting to modify data type and/or length of a column used to partition the table named in ALTER TABLE statement, which is illegal

How to fix the Error ORA-14060: data type or length of a table partitioning column may not be changed ?

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

Avoid modifying data type and/or length of table partitioning column(s)