How to fix the Oracle error ORA-27399: job type EXECUTABLE requires the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB privilege?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-27399: job type EXECUTABLE requires the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB privilege with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-27399: job type EXECUTABLE requires the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB privilege

Reason for the Error ORA-27399: job type EXECUTABLE requires the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB privilege

The owner of a job of type EXECUTABLE does not have the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB system privilege.

How to fix the Error ORA-27399: job type EXECUTABLE requires the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB privilege ?

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

Grant the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB system privilege to the job owner or create another job in a schema which does have the CREATE EXTERNAL JOB system privilege.