ORA-01445: cannot select ROWID from a join view without a key-preserved table

I got ” ORA-01445: cannot select ROWID from a join view without a key-preserved table ”  error in Oracle database.

ORA-01445: cannot select ROWID from a join view without a key-preserved table

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-01445: cannot select ROWID from a join view without a key-preserved table

Cause: A SELECT statement attempted to select ROWIDs from a view derived from a join operation.
 Because the rows selected in the view do not correspond to underlying physical records, 
no ROWIDs can be returned.


Action: Remove ROWID from the view selection clause, then re-execute the statement.

cannot select ROWID from a join view without a key-preserved table

This ORA-01445 error is related with the SELECT statement attempted to select ROWIDs from a view derived from a join operation. Because the rows selected in the view do not correspond to underlying physical records, no ROWIDs can be returned.

To solve this error, you should remove ROWID from the view selection clause, then re-execute the statement.

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