How to fix the Oracle error ORA-22868: table with LOBs contains segments in different tablespaces?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-22868: table with LOBs contains segments in different tablespaces with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-22868: table with LOBs contains segments in different tablespaces

Reason for the Error ORA-22868: table with LOBs contains segments in different tablespaces

An attempt was made to drop a tablespace which contains the segment(s) for the LOB columns of a table but does not contain the table segment.

How to fix the Error ORA-22868: table with LOBs contains segments in different tablespaces ?

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

Find table(s) with LOB columns which have non-table segments in this tablespace. Drop these tables and reissue drop tablespace.