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ORA-30485: missing ORDER BY expression in the window specification

Some analytic functions require an ORDER BY expression. Without such an expression, the ORA-30485: missing ORDER BY expression in the window specification is thrown, as for example in the following SQL statement:
select
       object_type                                     typ,
       object_name                                     obj,
   lag(object_name, 1) over (partition by object_type) obj_lag
from
   user_objects
order by
   object_name
;
The following statement has such on order by clause and doesn't throw this error:
select
       object_type                                     typ,
       object_name                                     obj,
   lag(object_name, 1) over (partition by object_type
                             ORDER     BY object_name) obj_lag
from
   user_objects
;

See also

Analytic functions
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