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ORA-821 Specified Value Of Sga_target Is Too Small, Needs To Be At Least %sM (Doc ID 744796.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 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 Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

Newly created database fails to startup with Error ORA-821:Specified value of sga_target is too small, needs to be at least %m.

These same initialization parameters are used for all other databases and start fine with the same sga_target size on different machines.







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Cause

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