How To Change SYS user password for oracle database instance If you have ever tried to change the SYS of a normal or ASM database instance Password, you would get errors as below : SQL> password Changing password for SYS Old password: New password: Retype new password: ERROR: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [15051], [], [], [], [], [], [], [] SQL> select INSTANCE_NAME from v$instance; INSTANCE_NAME ---------------- +ASM SQL> ALTER USER sys IDENTIFIED BY [new_password] REPLACE [old_password]; ALTER USER sys IDENTIFIED BY [new_password] REPLACE [old_password] * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01109: database not open The following error also might occur: SQL> alter user sys identified by ; alter user sys identified by * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges The reason behind these failures are – The password should be the one provided when the password file was created, also REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE should be se...