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Oracle Troubleshooting
ORA-12516: TNS:listener could not find available handler with matching protocol stack
Symptom:
The error:
ORA-12516: TNS:listener could not find available handler with matching protocol stack
Causes:
None of the known and available service handlers for the given SERVICE_NAME support the client's protocol stack: transport, session, and presentation protocols.
Remedy:
Check to make sure that the service handlers (e.g. dispatchers) for the given SERVICE_NAME are registered with the listener, are accepting connections, and that they are properly configured to support the desired protocols.
Contributed by: Preetham SP.
This page represents one page of many pages of notes I made whilst working with Oracle 7 through to 10i. I now no longer work with Oracle databases, but hope that these notes will continue to be of benefit to others.
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