How to fix the Oracle error ORA-29869: cannot issue ALTER without REBUILD on a domain index marked FAILED?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-29869: cannot issue ALTER without REBUILD on a domain index marked FAILED with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-29869: cannot issue ALTER without REBUILD on a domain index marked FAILED

Reason for the Error ORA-29869: cannot issue ALTER without REBUILD on a domain index marked FAILED

Tried to issue a DROP/ALTER on a domain index in a FAILED state.

How to fix the Error ORA-29869: cannot issue ALTER without REBUILD on a domain index marked FAILED ?

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

Truncate the table to mark the index as valid OR do ALTER INDEX REBUILD to rebuild the index.