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Diagnosing and Resolving Error ORA-04031 on the Shared Pool or Other Memory Pools (Doc ID 146599.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 03, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to provide an easy to use, step by step guide to resolving ORA-04031 errors.

 

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Troubleshooting Steps

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In this Document
Purpose
Troubleshooting Steps
 1. Instance parameters related with the Shared Pool
 2. Diagnosing error ORA-04031
 3. Resolving error ORA-04031
 4. ORA-04031 error and Large Pool
 5. ORA-04031 and SHARED POOL FLUSHING
 6. Advanced analysis to ORA-04031 error
 Community Discussion
References

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