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

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 08, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.0.1.4 and later
Oracle Net Services - Version 9.2.0.5 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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