How to fix the Oracle error ORA-22810: cannot modify object attributes with REF dereferencing?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-22810: cannot modify object attributes with REF dereferencing with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-22810: cannot modify object attributes with REF dereferencing

Reason for the Error ORA-22810: cannot modify object attributes with REF dereferencing

An attempt was made to modify the attributes an object by dereferencing a REF column in an UPDATE statement.

How to fix the Error ORA-22810: cannot modify object attributes with REF dereferencing ?

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

Update the table containing the object that the REF points to, or change the REF column to an object type column.