How To Fix SOI_UPG212 - Table &1: Projection view already exists: Drop/Create is not necessary

SOI_UPG212 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: SOI_UPG - Message for SOI upgrade

• Message number: 212

• Message text: Table &1: Projection view already exists: Drop/Create is not necessary

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message SOI_UPG212 - Table &1: Projection view already exists: Drop/Create is not necessary ?

  The SAP error message SOI_UPG212 indicates that during an upgrade or a database operation, the system has detected that a projection view already exists in the database. This means that the system is trying to create a projection view that is already present, which is unnecessary and leads to this error message.
  
  Cause:
  The primary cause of this error is that the upgrade process or the database operation is attempting to create a projection view that has already been created in the database. This can happen due to:
  
  Previous upgrade steps that were executed successfully and created the projection view.
  A misconfiguration in the upgrade process that does not properly check for existing views before attempting to create them.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Existing Views: Verify if the projection view mentioned in the error message already exists in the database. You can do this by querying the database directly