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ORA-00959 (tablespace does not exist) when creating an external table whose user's default tablespac

edited Oct 23, 2014 8:26AM in Database Utilities (MOSC) 8 commentsAnswered

Hi,

A colleague of mine has just pointed out to me a problem regarding the creation of an external table on a schema whose user's default tablespace does not exist.

It throws the error ORA-00959 (tablespace does not exist). The problem is that you apparently cannot specify a TABLESPACE clause for an external table, since it's not supposed to be a real physical table anyway.

That's what I understand from the documentation anyway (in red my emphasis):

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/tables.htm#ADMIN12896

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