How to fix the Oracle error ORA-02047: cannot join the distributed transaction in progress?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-02047: cannot join the distributed transaction in progress with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-02047: cannot join the distributed transaction in progress

Reason for the Error ORA-02047: cannot join the distributed transaction in progress

Either a transaction is in progress against a remote database that does not fully support two phase commit, and an update is attempted on another database, or updates are pending and and an attempt is made to update a different database that does not fully support two phase commit.

How to fix the Error ORA-02047: cannot join the distributed transaction in progress ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

complete the current transaction and then resubmit the update request.