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

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I was looking everywhere for the syntax also, but was having a hard time finding the documentation. From the page that Codo linked... notice that the FORCE is between the object name and as object

create or replace type ceq_owner.type_rec_parae2 FORCE as object    
(
  ...
  BONETAT_DESC  VARCHAR2(250),
  ... 
)
/ 

Answer 3

Try:

drop type your_type force;