How to fix the Oracle error ORA-22885: cannot get REF to a non-persistent object?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-22885: cannot get REF to a non-persistent object with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-22885: cannot get REF to a non-persistent object

Reason for the Error ORA-22885: cannot get REF to a non-persistent object

An attempt was made to get a REF for something other than an object in an object table. REFs can only be taken for objects in object tables.

How to fix the Error ORA-22885: cannot get REF to a non-persistent object ?

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

Rewrite the query to obtain REF values from object tables.