How to fix the Oracle error ORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable.?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable. with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable.

Reason for the Error ORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable.

User attempted to delete a variable, but some partitioned variable was defined to use that variable as the target of one of its external partitions.

How to fix the Error ORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable. ?

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

DELETE the partitioned variable or CHGDFN DROP PARTITION the the external partition from the partitioned variable, then delete the target variable.