ORA-38312: original name is used by an existing object

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ORA-38312: original name is used by an existing object..

Answer / guest

Cause: An attempt was made to recover an object preserving
the original name, but that name is taken up by some other
object.

Action: use the RENAME clause to recover the object with a
different name.

Please add more information about this Error

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ORA-38312: original name is used by an existing object..

Answer / sivadasan

I faced this kind of error while Undrop a table from
recyclebin.

If i droped a table means in recyclebin it will get a new
name in the prefix with 'BIN$'.not only one. there are two
or more object name will be created.

At the time of "flashback" process Oracle is throwing this
error " ORA-38312: original name is used by an existing
object" .

If anybody know the reason pls explain

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ORA-38312: original name is used by an existing object..

Answer / sonali

It happens because you have a table with the same name which you have dropped earlier. Now the same name table you are trying recover and in the result oracle server is giving the above error.
However you can fix it by the below command.
FLASHBACK TABLE DEPT TO BEFORE DROP RENAME TO DEPT_OLD;

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