The following Oracle support notes might be of interest depending on your unidentified Oracle version/patch information. Note: 1393360.1 ORA-19706 and Related Alert Log Messages Note: 1503937.1 Master Note: Overview for SCN issues -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bala Krishna Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:30 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Rejected to advance the SCN Issues Hi All, Almost all our Databases are affected with below errors , we suspect that its because of our distrubuted transactions . Rejected the attempt to advance SCN over limit by 212 hours worth to 0x0c2c.ae9cc069, by distributed transaction remote logon, remote DB: XXXXX.xxxx.com. Client info : DB logon user APPS, machine XXXXXXX, program , and OS user XXXXXXX As if now we've mitigated this issue by setting below parameters. _external_scn_rejection_threshold_hours=24 My question:- 1. Distrubuted Transactions are being failed sometimes with ORA-600 , ORA-19706: invalid SCN & some instance crashes are also observed. I've read in this blog ( http://www.orainternals.com/2012/01/20/scn-what-why-and-how/) and it says that At commit time, a co-ordinated SCN is needed for the distributed transaction and maximum SCN value from all participating databases is chosen. So which means , since there is a increase in SCN number we should be facing this kind of issues even for local transactions rather than distrubted transactions right ? but we're not facing such issues as such ? Regards Bala -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l