How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14221: Dictionary managed tablespace cannot be used for this operation?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14221: Dictionary managed tablespace cannot be used for this operation with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14221: Dictionary managed tablespace cannot be used for this operation

Reason for the Error ORA-14221: Dictionary managed tablespace cannot be used for this operation

Attempted to create an index or add a LOB column in a dictionary managed tablespace to a table without a segment.

How to fix the Error ORA-14221: Dictionary managed tablespace cannot be used for this operation ?

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

Specify a locally managed tablespace OR create segments for the table with the ALTER TABLE ALLOCATE EXTENT command.