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This section lists some of the messages generated when SQL statements are parsed by the Oracle Server.
Cause: A valid tablespace name does not follow ALTER TABLESPACE.
Action: Specify a valid tablespace name following ALTER TABLESPACE.
Cause: An option other than NORMAL or IMMEDIATE follows OFFLINE in an ALTER TABLESPACE statement.
Action: The user must either specify no option following OFFLINE or one of these options: NORMAL or IMMEDIATE.
Cause: An invalid option was specified after ALTER TABLESPACE.
Action: Use one of the valid options, such as ADD DATAFILE, RENAME DATAFILE, DEFAULT STORAGE, ONLINE, OFFLINE, BEGIN BACKUP, or END BACKUP.
Cause: An option other than INITIAL, NEXT, MINEXTENTS, MAXEXTENTS, FREELISTS, FREELIST GROUPS, or PCTINCREASE was specified in an ALTER INDEX statement or in the USING INDEX clause of an ALTER SNAPSHOT statement.
Action: Check syntax, specify only valid options, and try again.
Cause: No valid ALTER CLUSTER options were specified.
Action: Specify one or more valid options, such as PCTFREE, PCTUSED, SIZE, INITRANS, MAXTRANS, or STORAGE.
Cause: No STORAGE options were specified following the keyword STORAGE.
Action: Check syntax, specify one or more valid STORAGE options, and try again.
Cause: The SHARED option was specified more than once in a CREATE DATABASE statement.
Action: Only specify the SHARED option once.
Cause: Both the SHARED and EXCLUSIVE options were specified in a CREATE DATABASE statement.
Action: Specify SHARED or EXCLUSIVE, but not both.
Cause: The EXCLUSIVE option was specified in a CREATE DATABASE statement more than once.
Action: Only specify the EXCLUSIVE option once.
Cause: Partition not found the base object.
Action: Enter the correct partition specification and retry the operation.
Cause: An encoded password string does not follow the VALUES clause.
Action: Place a proper encoded password string after the VALUES clause.
Cause: A valid tablespace name does not follow DEFAULT TABLESPACE.
Action: Place a valid tablespace name after DEFAULT TABLESPACE and try again.
Cause: A valid tablespace name does not follow TEMPORARY TABLESPACE.
Action: Place a valid tablespace name after TEMPORARY TABLESPACE and try again.
Cause: No options were specified.
Action: Specify at least one ALTER USER option and try again.
Cause: An option other than PCTFREE, INITRANS, MAXTRANS, NOSORT, STORAGE, or TABLESPACE was specified.
Action: Specify one of the valid CREATE INDEX options and try again.
Cause: The parameter file specified GC_*PARAMETERS that allow locks to be released by the LCK process when not in use. This mode required additional support in DLM that was not available.
Action: Specify configuration parameters that do not require the additional function.
For more information about the distributed lock manager(DLM), see the index entry on "LCK" in Oracle8 Server Concepts and the index entries on "distributed lock manager" and on "distributed lock manager, LCKn process" in Oracle8 Parallel Server Concepts & Administration.
Cause: A column of type LONG defined for index-organized table.
Action: Do not use columns of type LONG in index-organized tables.
Cause: A number does not follow MAXLOGFILES.
Action: Specify a number after MAXLOGFILES and try again.
Cause: A number does not follow MAXDATAFILES.
Action: Specify a number after MAXDATAFILES and try again.
Cause: A number does not follow FREELIST GROUPS.
Action: Specify a number after FREELIST GROUPS and try again.
Cause: The CREATE DATABASE statement contains more than one DATAFILE clause.
Action: Specify at most one DATAFILE clause and try again.
Cause: An invalid CREATE DATABASE option is present.
Action: Specify only valid CREATE DATABASE options and try again.
Cause: Both ARCHIVELOG and NOARCHIVELOG are specified in a CREATE DATABASE statement.
Action: Specify either of these two options, but not both, and try again.
Cause: The CREATE DATABASE statement contains more than one LOGFILE clause.
Action: Specify at most one LOGFILE clause and try again.
Cause: A number does not follow the FREELISTS storage option of the CREATE TABLE or CREATE INDEX statement.
Action: Specify a number after FREELISTS and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to specify the FREELISTS storage option when performing an operation other than CREATE TABLE or CREATE INDEX.
Action: Check the syntax of the statement, remove this option, then re-execute the statement.
Cause: An attempt was made to specify the FREELIST GROUPS storage option. This option may be specified only when using the CREATE TABLE command and when the ALLOW_FREELIST_GROUPS parameter is specified in the initialization parameter file.
Action: Retry the statement without the FREELIST GROUPS storage option or set the ALLOW_FREELIST_GROUPS parameter in the initialization parameter file.
Cause: A number does not follow MAXLOGHISTORY.
Action: Specify a number after MAXLOGHISTORY.
Cause: The PUBLIC keyword was specified when disabling a thread.
Action: Check the syntax of the command and retry.
Cause: Something other than INCLUDING CONTENTS was found following the tablespace name, or text other than CASCADE CONSTRAINTS was found following INCLUDING CONTENTS.
Action: Place either nothing or only INCLUDING CONTENTS after the tablespace name, or place either nothing or only CASCADE CONSTRAINTS after INCLUDING CONTENTS and try again.
Cause: A thread number must be specified after THREAD keyword.
Action: Use correct syntax.
Cause: In the CREATE or DROP ROLLBACK SEGMENT statements, a valid rollback segment name does not follow ROLLBACK SEGMENT.
Action: Place a valid rollback segment name after ROLLBACK SEGMENT and try again.
Cause: An invalid option was specified in a CREATE ROLLBACK SEGMENT statement.
Action: Specify one of the valid options, TABLESPACE or STORAGE, and try again.
Cause: A group number must be specified after GROUP keyword.
Action: Check the syntax of the command, specify a group number after GROUP, and retry it.
Cause: There is a syntax error in the user's statement.
Action: Correct the syntax as indicated and try again.
Cause: There was a syntax error in the user's statement.
Action: Correct the syntax as indicated.
Cause: An invalid option follows CREATE TABLESPACE.
Action: Specify one of the valid options: DATAFILE, DEFAULT STORAGE, ONLINE, or OFFLINE, and try again.
Cause: A word other than TO follows ROLLBACK [WORK].
Action: Place either nothing or TO SAVEPOINT after ROLLBACK [WORK] and try again.
Cause: A valid savepoint name does not follow ROLLBACK [WORK] TO [SAVEPOINT].
Action: Place a savepoint name following TO [SAVEPOINT] and try again.
Cause: There was a syntax error in the user's statement.
Action: Correct the syntax as indicated.
Cause: In a revoke statement, a resource quota was specified.
Action: Specify the resource privilege without the quota and try again.
Cause: A token other than WORK follows COMMIT.
Action: Place either nothing or WORK after COMMIT and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to grant or revoke a resource quota in the same statement in which other privileges are granted or revoked.
Action: Use a separate GRANT or REVOKE statement for the resource quota privilege and try again.
Cause: In a GRANT or REVOKE statement, an attempt was made to grant a tablespace quota above the upper limit.
Action: Grant a smaller tablespace quota and try again.
Cause: The GRANT or REVOKE statement specifying a tablespace quota requires the ON tablespace clause.
Action: Correct the syntax and try again.
Cause: The keyword TABLES is expected following DROP CLUSTER cluster name INCLUDING.
Action: Place the keyword TABLES after INCLUDING and try again.
Cause: There is a syntax error in the SET TRANSACTION statement.
Action: Correct the syntax error and retry the statement.
Cause: The storage parameter PCTINCREASE was specified in a CREATE or ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT command.
Action: Retry the command without the PCTINCREASE clause.
Cause: There is a syntax error in an event specification.
Action: Check syntax and spelling and try again.
Cause: The object type was inconsistent with tablespace contents.
Action: Create the object in a different tablespace, or change the user defaults.
For more information about auditing schema objects, see the index entry on "AUDIT command" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
Cause: In CREATE TABLESPACE, the PERMANENT and/or TEMPORARY options were specified more than once.
Action: Specify at least one of REBUILD, INITRANS, MAXTRANS, or STORAGE.
For more information about the parameters of CREATE TABLESPACE, see the index entry on "CREATE TABLESPACE" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
Cause: In a CREATE TABLESPACE statement, more than one DATAFILE clause was specified.
Action: Merge the DATAFILE clauses into a single clause specifying multiple files and try again.
Cause: In a CREATE TABLESPACE statement, the ONLINE and/or OFFLINE options were specified more than once.
Action: Specify either ONLINE or OFFLINE, but not both, and try again.
Cause: A CREATE TABLESPACE statement has no DATAFILE clause.
Action: Specify the missing DATAFILE clause and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to GRANT to PUBLIC WITH GRANT OPTION.
Action: Remove either the PUBLIC or the WITH GRANT OPTION clause and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to reference a sequence in a FROM list. This is not permitted. A sequence can only be referenced in a SELECT list.
Action: Check the statement syntax, correct the reference, and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to create a table in a cluster that already contains 32 tables. No more than 32 tables may be stored in a cluster.
Action: Do not try to cluster more than 32 tables.
Cause: The user attempted to alter the INITIAL storage option of a table, cluster, index, or rollback segment. This option may be specified only when the object is created.
Action: Remove the INITIAL option and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to grant or revoke an invalid privilege on a view.
Action: Do not attempt to grant or revoke the privileges ALTER, INDEX, or REFERENCES on views.
Cause: An attempt was made to grant or revoke an invalid privilege on a sequence.
Action: Do not attempt to grant or revoke the privileges DELETE, INDEX, INSERT, UPDATE, REFERENCES, or EXECUTE on sequences.
Cause: INITRANS is specified more than once.
Action: Specify INITRANS only once and try again.
Cause: The INITRANS value is not an integer between 2 and 255, or it is not less than or equal to the MAXTRANS value.
Action: Specify a valid INITRANS value and try again.
Cause: The MAXTRANS option is specified more than once.
Action: Specify MAXTRANS only once and try again.
Cause: The MAXTRANS value is not an integer between 2 and 255, or it is not greater than or equal to the INITRANS value.
Action: Specify a valid MAXTRANS value and try again.
Cause: No ALTER TABLE option was specified.
Action: Specify at least one ALTER TABLE option and try again.
Cause: The specified value for PCTFREE or PCTUSED is not an integer between 0 and 100.
Action: Specify an appropriate value for the option and try again.
Cause: The PCTFREE option was specified more than once.
Action: Specify the PCTFREE option only once and try again.
Cause: The PCTUSED option was specified more than once.
Action: Specify the PCTUSED option only once and try again.
Cause: The BACKUP option to ALTER TABLE was specified more than once.
Action: Specify the BACKUP option only once and try again.
Cause: There is more than one TABLESPACE clause in one of the following statements: GRANT/REVOKE RESOURCE, CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE/DROP TABLESPACE, CREATE CLUSTER, and CREATE ROLLBACK SEGMENT.
Action: Check the statement syntax, specify only one TABLESPACE clause, and try again.
Cause: A valid tablespace name is not present where required in one of the following statements: CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE/DROP TABLESPACE, CREATE CLUSTER, and CREATE ROLLBACK SEGMENT.
Action: Check the statement syntax, specify a valid tablespace name where required, and try again.
Cause: A storage option, such as INITIAL, NEXT, MINEXTENTS, MAXEXTENTS, or PCTINCREASE, was specified more than once.
Action: Specify storage options only once and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be an integer.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be an integer.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be a positive integer that is less than or equal to MAXEXTENTS.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be a positive integer greater than or equal to MINEXTENTS.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be a positive integer.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be an integer.
Action: Chose an appropriate integer value for the OPTIMAL storage option.
Cause: An attempt was made to GRANT or REVOKE an invalid privilege on a table.
Action: Do not attempt to GRANT or REVOKE the EXECUTE privilege on tables.
Cause: An attempt was made to GRANT or REVOKE an invalid privilege on a procedure, function, or package.
Action: Do not attempt to GRANT or REVOKE any privilege other than EXECUTE on procedures, functions, or packages.
Cause: The value specified for MAXEXTENTS is too large for the database block.
Action: Specify a value for MAXEXTENTS that is smaller than the number given in the message.
Cause: A cluster name was not properly formed.
Action: Check the rules for forming object names and enter an appropriate cluster name.
Cause: The SIZE option is specified more than once.
Action: Specify the SIZE option only once and try again.
Cause: The specified value must be an integer number of bytes.
Action: Specify an appropriate integer value and try again.
Cause: An option other than PCTFREE, PCTUSED, INITRANS, MAXTRANS, STORAGE, or SIZE was specified in an ALTER CLUSTER statement.
Action: Specify only valid options in the ALTER CLUSTER statement and try again.
Cause: An invalid option was specified in the statement.
Action: Check the syntax of the ALTER DATABASE command. Specify only valid options in the ALTER DATABASE statement and try again.
Cause: A mode other than SHARED or EXCLUSIVE follows the keyword MOUNT in an ALTER DATABASE statement.
Action: Specify either SHARED, EXCLUSIVE, or nothing following the keyword MOUNT in the ALTER DATABASE statement and try again.
Cause: A mode other than NORMAL or IMMEDIATE follows the keyword CLOSE in an ALTER DATABASE statement.
Action: Specify either NORMAL, IMMEDIATE, or nothing following the keyword CLOSE in the ALTER DATABASE statement and try again.
Cause: The log table to be added is a duplicate of another.
Action: Do not add this change log to the system; check that the replication product's system tables are consistent.
Cause: The table to be altered is already a change log for another table.
Action: Do not log changes to the specified base table to this table; check that the replication product's system tables are consistent.
Cause: In a LOGFILE, DATAFILE, or RENAME clause, a character string literal was expected, but not found, in a filename list.
Action: Specify filenames using character string literals and try again.
Cause: An integer file size does not follow SIZE in a LOGFILE or DATAFILE file list.
Action: Specify an appropriate file size following the keyword SIZE and try again.
Cause: In a RENAME clause in ALTER DATABASE or TABLESPACE, the number of existing filenames does not equal the number of new filenames.
Action: Make sure a new filename corresponds to each existing filename and try again.
Cause: The sequence to be dropped is still referenced by other objects.
Action: Make sure the sequence name is correct or drop the constraint or object that references the sequence.
Cause: A number does not follow OBJNO or TABNO.
Action: Specify a number after OBJNO or TABNO.
Cause: There was an error in the extent storage clause.
Action: Respecify the storage clause using the correct syntax and retry the command.
Cause: No options were specified after ALTER INDEX.
Action: Specify the INITRANS, MAXTRANS, or STORAGE option in the ALTER INDEX statement and try again.
Cause: An option other than INITRANS, MAXTRANS, or STORAGE was specified in an ALTER INDEX statement or in the USING INDEX clause of an ALTER SNAPSHOT statement.
Action: Specify only valid options and try again.
Cause: An option other than STORAGE was found.
Action: Specify the STORAGE option and try again.
Cause: A rollback segment name was expected, but not found, following ALTER [PUBLIC] ROLLBACK SEGMENT.
Action: Place a rollback segment name after SEGMENT and try again.
Cause: A character string literal was expected, but not found, following the ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS command.
Action: Place the string literal containing the EVENTS text after the keyword EVENTS and try again.
Cause: The option SET EVENTS was expected, but not found, following the ALTER SESSION command.
Action: Place the SET EVENTS option after the ALTER SESSION command and try again.
Cause: An option other than SET EVENTS was found following the ALTER SESSION command.
Action: Specify the SET EVENTS option after the ALTER SESSION command and try again.
Cause: A valid number does not follow MAXLOGMEMBERS. The value specified must be between 1 and the operating system-specific maximum number of log file members.
Action: Specify a valid number after MAXLOGMEMBERS.
Cause: The constraint name is missing or invalid.
Action: Specify a valid constraint name and try again.
Cause: A subquery is not allowed at this point in the statement.
Action: Remove or relocate the subquery and try again.
Cause: The specified search condition for the check constraint is not properly ended.
Action: Check and correct the search condition's syntax. Then retry the operation.
Cause: A constraint specification is not allowed at this point in the statement.
Action: Remove or relocate the constraint specification and try again.
Cause: A default-value expression is not allowed for the column at this point in the statement.
Action: Remove or relocate the default-value expression and try again.
Cause: A NOT NULL specification conflicts with the NULL default value.
Action: Remove either the NOT NULL or the DEFAULT NULL specification and try again.
Cause: The number of columns in the foreign-key referencing list is not equal to the number of columns in the referenced list.
Action: Ensure that the referencing columns match the referenced columns.
Cause: The number of columns in the key list exceeds the maximum number.
Action: Reduce the number of columns in the list.
Cause: A duplicate or conflicting NULL and/or NOT NULL was specified.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: A duplicate unique or primary key was specified.
Action: Remove the duplicate specification and try again.
Cause: Two or more primary keys were specified for the same table.
Action: Remove the extra primary keys and try again.
Cause: A unique or primary key was specified that already exists for the table.
Action: Remove the extra key and try again.
Cause: An attempt to alter a column's datatype caused a type-checking error because the new datatype conflicted with the existing column's default value expression.
Action: Remove the default value expression or do not alter the column's datatype, and try again.
Cause: The required datatype for the column is missing.
Action: Specify the required datatype and try again.
Cause: The specified constraint name is not unique.
Action: Specify a unique constraint name for the constraint and try again.
Cause: The datatype of the referenced column is not defined as yet.
Action: Make sure that the datatype of the referenced column is defined before referencing it.
Cause: An attempt was made to drop or truncate a table with unique or primary keys referenced by foreign keys enabled in another table.
Action: Before dropping or truncating the table, disable the foreign key constraints in other tables. You can see what constraints are referencing a table by issuing the following command:
select constraint_name, table_name, status
from user_constraints
where r_constraint_name in (
select constraint_name from user_constraints where table_name
='tabnam');
Cause: An attempt was made to perform an operation on a pair of columns with incompatible datatypes.
Action: Specify a compatible datatype for the referencing column.
Cause: The referenced table does not have a primary key.
Action: Do not attempt to reference the table using a unique key, or create a unique key for the table.
Cause: An attempt was made to define a key column of datatype LONG. This is not allowed.
Action: Change the datatype of the column or remove the LONG column from the key, and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to reference a unique or primary key in a table with a CREATE or ALTER TABLE statement when no such key exists in the referenced table.
Action: Add the unique or primary key to the table or find the correct names of the columns with the primary or unique key, and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to reference a table using a constraint that does not exist.
Action: Check the spelling of the constraint name or add the constraint to the table, and try again.
Cause: A constrained column cannot be defined as datatype LONG. This is not allowed.
Action: Change the datatype of the column or remove the constraint on the column, and try again.
Cause: A unique or primary key referenced by foreign keys cannot be dropped.
Action: Remove all references to the key before dropping it.
Cause: A referential constraint was specified more than once. This is not allowed.
Action: Remove the duplicate specification.
Cause: An attempt was made to specify a referential constraint that already exists. This would result in duplicate specifications and so is not allowed.
Action: Be sure to specify a constraint only once.
Cause: The type of the evaluated default expression is incompatible with the datatype of the column.
Action: Modify the default expression or change the column's datatype, and try again.
Cause: An invalid sequence name was specified.
Action: Check syntax and spelling, specify a valid sequence name, and try again.
Cause: Duplicate or conflicting MAXVALUE and/or NOMAXVALUE specifications.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: Duplicate or conflicting MINVALUE and/or NOMINVALUE clauses were specified.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: Duplicate or conflicting CYCLE and/or NOCYCLE clauses were specified.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: Duplicate or conflicting CACHE and/or NOCACHE clauses were specified.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: Duplicate or conflicting ORDER and/or NOORDER clauses were specified.
Action: Remove one of the conflicting specifications and try again.
Cause: An attempt was made to alter a starting sequence number. This is not allowed.
Action: Do not try to alter a starting sequence number.
Cause: A duplicate INCREMENT BY clause was specified.
Action: Remove the duplicate specification and try again.
Cause: A duplicate START WITH clause was specified.
Action: Remove the duplicate specification and try again.
Cause: No ALTER SEQUENCE option was specified.
Action: Check the syntax. Then specify at least one ALTER SEQUENCE option.
Cause: The specified sequence number reference, CURRVAL or NEXTVAL, is inappropriate at this point in the statement.
Action: Check the syntax. Then remove or relocate the sequence number.
Cause: A mode other than RESETLOGS was specified in an ALTER DATABASE OPEN statement. RESETLOGS is the only valid OPEN mode.
Action: Remove the invalid mode from the statement or replace it with the keyword RESETLOGS, and try again.
Cause: The specified sequence does not exist, or access privilege is required for this operation. Also, this error can occur if attempting to access a remote sequence through an invalid or non-existent database link.
Action: Check spelling of the sequence name or obtain the required access privilege. If necessary, create the sequence. All remote sequences accessed in a distributed transaction must be on the same node.
Cause: The value or values attempted to be entered in a field or fields violate a defined check constraint.
Action: Enter values that satisfy the constraint.
Cause: An attempt was made to INSERT or UPDATE a foreign key value. The result was a value that is not in the parent key.
Action: UPDATE to or INSERT a value that is in the parent key.
Cause: An attempt was made to delete a row that is referenced by a foreign key.
Action: It is necessary to DELETE or UPDATE the foreign key before changing this row.
Cause: An attempt was made via an ALTERTABLE statement to add a check constraint to a populated table that had no complying values.
Action: Retry the ALTER TABLE statement, specifying a check constraint on a table containing complying values. For more information about ALTER TABLE, see the index entry on "ALTER TABLE" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
Cause: An attempt was made via an ALTERTABLE statement to add a referential constraint to a populated table that had no matching parent values.
Action: Retry the ALTER TABLE statement, specifying a valid primary key in a parent table.
Cause: An attempt was made via a CREATE or ALTER TABLE statement to specify more than one ENABLE and/or DISABLE clause for a given constraint.
Action: Only one ENABLE or DISABLE clause may be specified for a given constraint.
Cause: An ALTER TABLE command with an ENABLE CONSTRAINT clause failed because the table contains values that do not satisfy the constraint.
Action: Make sure that all values in the table satisfy the constraint before issuing an ALTER TABLE command with an ENABLE CONSTRAINT clause. For more information about ALTER TABLE and ENABLE CONSTRAINT, see the index entries on "ALTER TABLE" and on "ENABLE clause" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
Cause: An alter table disable constraint failed because the table has foreign keys that are dependent on the constraint.
Action: Either disable the foreign key constraints or use a DISABLE CASCADE command.
Cause: An ALTER TABLE ENABLE CONSTRAINT command failed because the table has orphaned child records.
Action: Make sure that the table has no orphaned child records before issuing an ALTER TABLE ENABLE CONSTRAINT command. For more information about ALTER TABLE and ENABLE CONSTRAINT, see the index entries on "ALTER TABLE" and on "ENABLE clause" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
Cause: An ALTER TABLE ENABLE CONSTRAINT command failed because the table has duplicate key values.
Action: Make sure that the table has no duplicate key values before issuing an ALTER TABLE ENABLE CONSTRAINT command. For more information about ALTER TABLE and ENABLE CONSTRAINT, see the index entries on "ALTER TABLE" and on "ENABLE clause" in Oracle8 Server SQL Reference.
