How to fix the Oracle error ORA-31420: unable to submit the purge job?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-31420: unable to submit the purge job with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-31420: unable to submit the purge job

Reason for the Error ORA-31420: unable to submit the purge job

When creating the first change table, a purge job is submitted to the job queue. Submission of this purge job failed.

How to fix the Error ORA-31420: unable to submit the purge job ?

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

Make sure that job queue processes are enabled and are currently running. If this does not solve the problem, contact Oracle.