How to fix the Oracle error ORA-39296: Cannot alter index partitioning type or partitioning columns.?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-39296: Cannot alter index partitioning type or partitioning columns. with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-39296: Cannot alter index partitioning type or partitioning columns.

Reason for the Error ORA-39296: Cannot alter index partitioning type or partitioning columns.

DBMS_METADATA_DIFF was comparing two indexes with incompatible partitioning: (1) one is partitioned and one is not (2) both are partitioned but in different ways (locally vs. globally, hash vs. range) (3) both are partitioned but on different columns. There is no SQL ALTER statement to change the way an index is partitioned.

How to fix the Error ORA-39296: Cannot alter index partitioning type or partitioning columns. ?

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

The difference cannot be eliminated with an SQL ALTER statement.