How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16212: number of processes specified for SQL Apply is too great?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16212: number of processes specified for SQL Apply is too great with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16212: number of processes specified for SQL Apply is too great

Reason for the Error ORA-16212: number of processes specified for SQL Apply is too great

Logical standby apply engine was started with more processes requested than are available.

How to fix the Error ORA-16212: number of processes specified for SQL Apply is too great ?

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

Adjust the values of the initialization parameters PROCESSES or the MAX_SERVERS parameter seen in the DBA_LOGSTDBY_PARAMETERS view. If you did not specify MAX_SERVERS, but instead specified PREPARE_SERVERS and APPLY_SERVERS through the dbms_logstdby.apply_set procedure, you will need to decrease either one or both of them.