How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14165: MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION may not be combined with other operations?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14165: MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION may not be combined with other operations with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14165: MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION may not be combined with other operations

Reason for the Error ORA-14165: MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION may not be combined with other operations

ALTER TABLE or ALTER INDEX statement attempted to combine MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES OF PARTITION with some other operation (e.g. ADD PARTITION or PCTFREE) which is illegal

How to fix the Error ORA-14165: MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION may not be combined with other operations ?

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

Ensure that MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES is the sole operation specified in ALTER TABLE or ALTER INDEX statement; operations other than those dealing with partitions, default attributes of partitioned tables/indices or specifying that a table be renamed (ALTER TABLE RENAME) may be combined at will