How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16736: unable to find the destination entry of standby database “string” in V$ARCHIVE_DEST?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16736: unable to find the destination entry of standby database “string” in V$ARCHIVE_DEST with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16736: unable to find the destination entry of standby database “string” in V$ARCHIVE_DEST

Reason for the Error ORA-16736: unable to find the destination entry of standby database “string” in V$ARCHIVE_DEST

Either the standby destination was manually changed or deleted outside of Data Guard broker, or no entry was available for the Data Guard broker to use.

How to fix the Error ORA-16736: unable to find the destination entry of standby database “string” in V$ARCHIVE_DEST ?

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

Clean up the destination setting, remove the unused settings, and reset the redo transport service.