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ORA-04031: Unable To Allocate 32 Bytes Of Shared Memory ("shared pool","select tablespace_id, rfno, ...","SQLA","tmp")" (Doc ID 1986741.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata 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
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Alert log reports errors like below in almost all the instances:

ORA-04031: unable to allocate 32 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","select tablespace_id, rfno, ...","SQLA","tmp")"

 

Cause

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