ORA-13516 AWR Tips

Oracle Database Tips by Donald BurlesonAugust 6, 2015

Question: What causes the ORA-13516 error?

Answer: You see this oerr listing for the ORA-13516 error message:

ORA-13516: AWR Operation failed: string

Cause: The operation failed because AWR is not available. The possible causes are: AWR schema not yet created; AWR not enabled; AWR schema not initialized; or database not open or is running in READONLY or STANDBY mode.

Action: check the above conditions and retry the operation

There are several remedies for this error.

ORA-13516: AWR Operation failed: Catproc not valid

For this error you need to run (re-run) the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catproc.sql script

SQL> connect myuser/password as sysdba
SQL>@%ORACLE_HOME%\rdbms\admin\catproc.sql
SQL>@%ORACLE_HOME%\rdbms\admin\utlrp.sql

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