How to fix the Oracle error ORA-29953: cannot issue DDL on a domain index partition marked as FAILED?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-29953: cannot issue DDL on a domain index partition marked as FAILED with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-29953: cannot issue DDL on a domain index partition marked as FAILED

Reason for the Error ORA-29953: cannot issue DDL on a domain index partition marked as FAILED

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

How to fix the Error ORA-29953: cannot issue DDL on a domain index partition marked as FAILED ?

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

do ALTER INDEX REBUILD PARTITION to rebuild the index partition OR ALTER TABLE TRUNCATE PARTITION to mark the index partition as valid.