Extending Shared Pool

Question

Dear buddies,
I am receiving this error:
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 32884 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","grant select on query....","sql area","qry_text : ....")
In order to solve this, I need to give more space for the shared pool?
The total RAM size is 3.82GB(in My Computer's properties)
The current shared pool size is
I just performed a full backup and also made a copy of the init file.
The current value of:
shared_pool_size = 100M
sort_area_retained_size = 1048576
sort_area_size = 1048576
pga_aggregate_target = 30M
large_pool_size = 8m
log_buffer = 163840
So, in order to extend the space, how can I do it?
Just change the value to 200M? Is that okay? Some development is going on, and some packages are being compiled. Everything has been stopped after receiving this error. I should shut down, change the value and restart the database?
Please advice me.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
Nith
Edited by: user645399 on May 25, 2010 1:04 PM

Answer 1

Hi,There are two matter.
1.If you use automatic shared memory management(ASMM) then do followings:(To enabling this feature
you have to set sga_terget != 0 and statistics_level != basic).
sqlplus "/as sysdba"
show parameter sga_target; --then will return current value
alter system set sga_max_size=<newsize> scope=spfile
alter system set sga_target=<newsize> scope=spfile
then restart database;
shutdown immediate;
startup;
2.Else you can increase dynamically as:
sqlplus "/as sysdba"
show parameter shared_pool_size ; --then will return current value
alter system set shared_pool_size=<newsize>.
if you use pfile then you can use above method but also you have to change pfile