ORA-26840: Streams Unable To Identify An Apply For The Source Database (Doc ID 1322722.1)

Last updated on JULY 10, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.2.0.1 and later   [Release: 11.2 and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

In a hub-spoke or multiple source Streams configuration, you see following error in alert log file from source database:

ORA-26840: STREAMS unable to identify an apply for the source database "".
ORA-26840: STREAMS unable to identify an apply for the source database "SOURCE".
ORA-02063: preceding line from DEST.TEST.COM
Although capture starts just fine, no changes are propagated to destination.

Changes

Modified source global database name.

Cause

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