Error: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object in Oracle Function

Question

I have function which i am trying to compile and getting an error as Error: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object. I am really not aware of this

Answer 1

You probably have another object with the same name (PERFORM_CHECK).

You can find it by quering user_objects:

select *
from   user_objects
where  object_name = 'PERFORM_CHECK'

Then drop it (replace TYPE_OF_OBJECT by the type of the object from the above query):

 drop TYPE_OF_OBJECT perform_check