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ORA-12838 Error While Running A MERGE Statement (Doc ID 1918605.1)

Last updated on APRIL 04, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms


You are running a MERGE statement similar to:

MERGE
/*+ APPEND  */
INTO ("TABLE1",  "TABLE2") USING
--
--

And it's failing with:

MERGE
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel.

Changes

 

Cause

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