In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-00281: media recovery may not be performed using dispatcher with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.
Oracle Error Description
ORA-00281: media recovery may not be performed using dispatcher
Reason for the Error ORA-00281: media recovery may not be performed using dispatcher
An attempt was made to use a dispatcher process for media recovery. Memory requirements disallow this recovery method.
How to fix the Error ORA-00281: media recovery may not be performed using dispatcher ?
You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps
Connect to the instance via a dedicated server process to perform media recovery.