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ORA-02303: cannot drop or replace a type with type or table dependents

I'm newbee in oracle and I try to change varchar(50) to 250

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE CEQ_OWNER.TYPE_REC_PARAE2
AS OBJECT    
(
    ...
    BONETAT_DESC  VARCHAR2(250),
    ... 
)
/

I get ORA-02303: cannot drop or replace a type with type or table dependents

Solution

  • There are other types or tables that depend on the type you want to change. If it's a dependent type, then you can use the FORCE option to change the type.

    If it's a table that directly or indirectly uses the type, then you will need to create a new type and a new table, migrate all the data, and finally drop and rename tables and types.

    See this Oracle documentation for some further information.