How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14086: a partitioned index may not be rebuilt as a whole?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14086: a partitioned index may not be rebuilt as a whole with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14086: a partitioned index may not be rebuilt as a whole

Reason for the Error ORA-14086: a partitioned index may not be rebuilt as a whole

User attempted to rebuild a partitioned index using ALTER INDEX REBUILD statement, which is illegal

How to fix the Error ORA-14086: a partitioned index may not be rebuilt as a whole ?

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

Rebuild the index a partition at a time (using ALTER INDEX REBUILD PARTITION) or drop and recreate the entire index