How to fix the Oracle error ORA-39178: cannot perform estimate on metadata only jobs?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-39178: cannot perform estimate on metadata only jobs with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-39178: cannot perform estimate on metadata only jobs

Reason for the Error ORA-39178: cannot perform estimate on metadata only jobs

An estimate was requested for a job by specifying the ESTIMATE or ESTIMATE_ONLY parameter. However, the job was also defined to have no data. These specifications conflict with each other.

How to fix the Error ORA-39178: cannot perform estimate on metadata only jobs ?

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

Remove one of the conflicting specifications for the job.