How to fix the Oracle error PRCD-01046: Database {0} is policy managed and does not support the remove instance option?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorPRCD-01046: Database {0} is policy managed and does not support the remove instance option with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

PRCD-01046: Database {0} is policy managed and does not support the remove instance option

Reason for the Error PRCD-01046: Database {0} is policy managed and does not support the remove instance option

Cause: The specified database does not support the remove instance option.

How to fix the Error PRCD-01046: Database {0} is policy managed and does not support the remove instance option ?

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

Action: 1) Provide an administrator-managed database. -or- 2) For policy-managed database, stop the database on a server and then remove that server from the server pool which manages the database using ‘srvctl modify srvpool’ or ‘srvctl relocate server’.