How to Fix ORA-04031 unable to allocate string bytes...

ORA-04031 unable to allocate string bytes of shared memory ("string","string","string","string")

What causes an ORA-04031 error?

More shared memory is needed than was allocated in the shared pool.

How Xynomix can help

If the shared pool is out of memory, either use the DBMS_SHARED_ POOL package to pin large packages, reduce your use of shared memory, or increase the amount of available shared memory by increasing the value of the initialization parameters SHARED_POOL_RESERVED_SIZE and SHARED_ POOL_SIZE. If the large pool is out of memory, increase the initialization parameter LARGE_POOL_SIZE.

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