How to fix the Oracle error ORA-29857: domain indexes and/or secondary objects exist in the tablespace?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-29857: domain indexes and/or secondary objects exist in the tablespace with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-29857: domain indexes and/or secondary objects exist in the tablespace

Reason for the Error ORA-29857: domain indexes and/or secondary objects exist in the tablespace

An attempt was made to drop a tablespace which contains secondary objects and/or domain indexes.

How to fix the Error ORA-29857: domain indexes and/or secondary objects exist in the tablespace ?

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

Drop the domain indexes in his tablespace. Also, find the domain indexes which created secondary objects in this tablespace and drop them. Then try dropping the tablespace.