How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14405: partitioned index contains partitions in a different tablespace?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14405: partitioned index contains partitions in a different tablespace with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14405: partitioned index contains partitions in a different tablespace

Reason for the Error ORA-14405: partitioned index contains partitions in a different tablespace

An attempt was made to drop a tablespace which contains indexes whose partitions are not completely contained in this tablespace, and which are defined on the tables which are completely contained in this tablespace.

How to fix the Error ORA-14405: partitioned index contains partitions in a different tablespace ?

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

find indexes with partitions which span the tablespace being dropped and some other tablespace(s). Drop these indexes, or move the index partitions to a different tablespace, or find the tables on which the indexes are defined, and drop (or move) them.