How to fix the Oracle error ORA-24506: invalid attempt to change character set id on env handle?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-24506: invalid attempt to change character set id on env handle with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-24506: invalid attempt to change character set id on env handle

Reason for the Error ORA-24506: invalid attempt to change character set id on env handle

Attempts to change character set id after other handles have been allocated from the env handle

How to fix the Error ORA-24506: invalid attempt to change character set id on env handle ?

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

Change character set id after creating environment handle but before allocating any handles from it.