Oracle Startup Issues ORA-16038
ORA-16038: log 1 sequence# 244 cannot be archived ORA-19809: limit exceeded for recovery files ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1 There is a possibility to encounter this issue in oracle database and when this happens you wont be able to open the database. you will be getting this once the db_recovery_file_dest_size value gets exceeded. However you can fix this one by increasing the db_recovery_file_dest_size or by clearing the obsolete files. To increase the db_recovery_file_dest_size size use the following steps.