How to fix the Oracle error ORA-03242: Tablespace migration retried 500 times?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-03242: Tablespace migration retried 500 times with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-03242: Tablespace migration retried 500 times

Reason for the Error ORA-03242: Tablespace migration retried 500 times

For migration to complete, temporary segments should not be present in the tablespace at the time of migration.

How to fix the Error ORA-03242: Tablespace migration retried 500 times ?

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

Avoid migrating the tablespace when there is heavy temporary segment creation going on as with object drops.