Yesterday, application team informed us about production job failure with error: ORA-08103 Object no longer exists. It was simple select query on object with type VIEW. I tried rerunning query which ran without any issue.
I tried to investigate, if the underlying objects have been dropped when job was running. But object creation time was in the year 2014 so definitely object was not dropped & recreated and it was present during job execution.
I tried to search in metalink support & found following note explaining issue:
According to note: We get this error when, tables are being dropped/truncated while a SQL statement for those tables is still in execution. In the case of an index, it might be caused by an index rebuild. In other words the object has been deleted by another session since the operation began.
I had a look into aud$ & found one of the underlying table in view was truncated at same time when job was executing select on view. So I got the culprit 🙂
But why oracle gave error: ORA-08103 Object no longer exists even when object was present???
If you check DBA_OBJECTS dictionary view, it has two columns OBJECT_ID & DATA_OBJECT_ID. Each object is assigned a unique number to recognise it in the database (OBJECT_ID). In the same manner, each object is linked to a segment. The data object id is assigned to that segment and any kind of change done on the physical segment would lead to give a change in that number (DATA_OBJECT_ID). Both the numbers are same initially but when the modifications happen on the segment, the DATA_OBJECT_ID changes. Both the OBJECT_ID and DATA_OBJECT_ID are the numbers used by oracle to denote the metadata for the object that is used within the data dictionary. Operations such as Truncate, Move, Rebuild Index, Spilt Partition etc would cause change in DATA_OBJECT_ID of the objects.
So this gives enough justification for oracle error: ORA-08103 Object no longer exists!!
Hope so u will find this post very useful:-)
Cheers
Regards,
Adityanath
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Hello There,
Thanks for visiting and appreciate your feedback.:-)
Regards,
Adi
Hi,
Thanks for this detailed explanation. But do you have any suggestions on how to workaround this error?
Hello There,
Thanks for visiting and appreciate your feedback.:-)
To answer your question:
Anything that alters an underlying object that is being queried can create this issue. Examples:
– truncate table
– alter table move
– drop table
You need to identify simultaneous operations on that object, then you can check with your application team to avoid concurrent operations on object.
Hope this helps!!!!
Regards,
Adi
any proposed solution appreciated please to avoid with this concurrent situation.
Best solution is to inform application team not to run jobs which has cross references on same objects concurrently.
Regards,
Adi
Dear friend,
I have the same problem with following error messages mail.
Error Message: Operation failed – Failed to execute BPM flow ‘RC-NRTRDE_OUT_DCH’: Failed to extract table ‘[Ljava.lang.Object;@384443ac’: Failed to extract records: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-08103: object no longer exists
please help to solve the issue.
Hello There,
We get this error when, tables are being dropped/truncated/moved while a SQL statement for those tables is still in execution. In the case of an index, it might be caused by an index rebuild. In other words the object has been deleted by another session since the operation began.
So here you need to find out which sql receiving ORA-08103. You may also crosscheck last_ddl_time from dba_objects at same timestamp.
This issue mostly talks about concurrency of DDL & select operation. So avoid this concurrent operations.
Also this can happen block corruption as well.
See MOS note OERR: ORA-8103 “object no longer exists” Master Note / Troubleshooting, Diagnostic and Solution (Doc ID 8103.1) for more details.
Hope this helps!!!
Regards,
Adi
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Hello Adi,
Is there any way we can maintain the same OBJECT_ID & DATA_OBJECT_ID while truncating the table? I’m specifically looking for a way to keep the same internal IDs while the table is truncated.
I agree in the following cases it should the IDs
– Drop and recreate the table
– Data block corruption
– any other as you mentioned.
data_object_id is internally controlled by Oracle, so we do not have control on it.
You may read below nice article from ASK TOM:
https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:23417970272903
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Adi
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