How to fix the Oracle error ORA-10452: Cannot do block media recovery; media recovery session may be in progress?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-10452: Cannot do block media recovery; media recovery session may be in progress with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-10452: Cannot do block media recovery; media recovery session may be in progress

Reason for the Error ORA-10452: Cannot do block media recovery; media recovery session may be in progress

A media recovery, RMAN, or flashback database session may have been in progress when an attempt was made to perform block media recovery on the standby database.

How to fix the Error ORA-10452: Cannot do block media recovery; media recovery session may be in progress ?

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

Check for and cancel any conflicting recovery session and perform block media recovery on the standby database.