How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16179: incremental changes to “string” not allowed with SPFILE?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16179: incremental changes to “string” not allowed with SPFILE with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16179: incremental changes to “string” not allowed with SPFILE

Reason for the Error ORA-16179: incremental changes to “string” not allowed with SPFILE

Incremental changes to a log_archive_dest_n parameter cannot be made when using an SPFILE.

How to fix the Error ORA-16179: incremental changes to “string” not allowed with SPFILE ?

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

Specify either LOCATION or SERVICE plus all other attributes to be set in one ALTER SYSTEM/SESSION SET command.