ORA-00942: table or view does not exist .or We are not able to drop

Question

I am getting below error while creating/drop table.Can you please help me on solving this error

create table transclaimcounts_ITG401223
drop table transclaimcounts_ITG401223

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ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

create table transclaimcounts_ITG401223

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ERROR at line 1: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object

Answer 1

The database object naming rules explain the namespaces, including:

Within a namespace, no two objects can have the same name.

The following schema objects share one namespace:

• Packages
• Private synonyms
• Sequences
• Stand-alone procedures
• Stand-alone stored functions
• Tables
• User-defined operators
• User-defined types
• Views

The ORA-00942 error is saying there is no table or view with that name, so the ORA-00955 error must be coming from a different object type from that list.

Query the data dictionary to see what exists:

select owner, object_type
from all_objects
where object_name = 'TRANSCLAIMCOUNTS_ITG401223';

(Note that the name is in uppercase in the data dictionary, as you are not using a quoted identifier; you won't find the object causing your issue if you look for object_name = 'transclaimcounts_ITG401223' . That is explained in the same documentation.)

Then you will either have to drop or rename that; or pick a different name for your new table. We can't advise you which action to take, it's your schema. But don't drop anything unless you're 100% sure it should not exist, obviously.