How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16724: cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16724: cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16724: cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases

Reason for the Error ORA-16724: cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases

The primary database could not resolve a gap request from one or more standby databases.

How to fix the Error ORA-16724: cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases ?

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

To see which standby database has an unresolvable gap, check the status of the primary database using either Enterprise Manager or the DGMGRL CLI SHOW DATABASE command. Copy the missing archived log files from either backups or from another database in the configuration that has the files to the standby database that is missing the files.