In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14656: cannot drop the parent of a reference-partitioned table with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.
Oracle Error Description
ORA-14656: cannot drop the parent of a reference-partitioned table
Reason for the Error ORA-14656: cannot drop the parent of a reference-partitioned table
Attempted to drop the parent of a reference-partitioned table.
How to fix the Error ORA-14656: cannot drop the parent of a reference-partitioned table ?
You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps
Drop all reference-partitioned child tables before dropping the parent table.