Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

ORA-00229: operation disallowed: already hold snapshot control fileenqueue

ORA-00229: operation disallowed: already hold snapshot control file enqueue




Cause: The attempted operation cannot be executed at this time because this process currently holds the snapshot control file enqueue.




Action: Retry the operation after calling cfileUseCurrent to release the snapshot control file enqueue.