How to resolve ORA-01789 Error Message in Oracle database

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Learn the cause and how to unravel the ORA-01789 error message in Oracle.

Description

When you come upon an ORA-01789 error, the following error message will appear:

ORA-01789: query block has fallacious number of end result columns

Cause

You tried to execute a SELECT assertion (probably a UNION query or a UNION ALL query), and all of the queries did no longer comprise the same quantity of end result columns.

Resolution

The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:

Option #1

Re-write the SELECT declaration so that every query includes the identical variety of end result columns.

For example, if you tried to execute the following UNION query:

SELECT order_id, quantity
FROM orders
UNION
SELECT order_id
FROM orders_audit;

You would receive an error message as follows:

You can right this UNION query by means of having the identical variety of columns in each SELECT’s as follows:

SELECT order_id, quantity
FROM orders
UNION
SELECT order_id, quantity
FROM orders_audit;

Remember that the matching columns (from each query) must be the same data types.