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ORA-7445 Followed By ORA-1000 "MAXIMUM OPEN CURSORS EXCEEDED" Error (Doc ID 1138647.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 03, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.Symptoms

You are experiencing ORA-7445 core dump errors which are accompanied by ORA-1000 errors, e.g.:

 

Changes

You may have already noticed that OPEN_CURSORS was set to a low value and corrected it by setting it higher and still encounter the errors.

Cause

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