How to fix the Oracle error ORA-39290: Cannot drop a partition of a globally partitioned index.?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-39290: Cannot drop a partition of a globally partitioned index. with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-39290: Cannot drop a partition of a globally partitioned index.

Reason for the Error ORA-39290: Cannot drop a partition of a globally partitioned index.

DBMS_METADATA_DIFF was comparing two globally partitioned indexes and a partition in the first index does not exist in the second index. There is no SQL ALTER statement to drop a partition of a globally partitioned index.

How to fix the Error ORA-39290: Cannot drop a partition of a globally partitioned index. ?

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

The difference cannot be eliminated with an SQL ALTER statement.