How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14078: you may not drop the highest partition of a GLOBAL index?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14078: you may not drop the highest partition of a GLOBAL index with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14078: you may not drop the highest partition of a GLOBAL index

Reason for the Error ORA-14078: you may not drop the highest partition of a GLOBAL index

User attempted to drop highest partition of a GLOBAL index, which is illegal.

How to fix the Error ORA-14078: you may not drop the highest partition of a GLOBAL index ?

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

Ensure that the partition specified in ALTER INDEX DROP PARTITION statement is not the highest partition of the index.