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Archive Log Shipping From Primary to Standby Fails With ORA-12514 (Doc ID 563801.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 22, 2025

Applies to:

Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Exadata Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Net Services - Version 9.2.0.5 and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.16.0.0.0 and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are unable to ship the archive log from the primary database to the standby.
The following error is being consistently thrown:
ORA-12514 TNS:listener could not resolve SERVICE_NAME given in connect descriptor

In this example, there are 3 nodes in RAC setup  database as Primary and 2 nodes in RAC setup as Standby.  While shipping logs from primary to standby the following error messages are thrown in the alert.log:

Changes

 

Cause

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