Oracle Solution for Error ora-33313

ORA-33313: (DELDENT05) workspace object

cannot be deleted because it is the target of an external partition of a partitioned variable.

What triggered the Error:

User attempted to delete a variable, but some partitioned variable was defined to use that variable as the target of one of its external partitions.

What should we do to fix it:

DELETE the partitioned variable or CHGDFN DROP PARTITION the the external partition from the partitioned variable, then delete the target variable.