ORA-00604 ORA-04031 while issuing a DROP USER USER_NAME CASCADE statement

[Brett Baloun]

Hello,

I received this error message when I issue the drop statement. We are
using a 9.2.0.3 DB on UNIX OS. I have been able to drop other users
within the same session, but this particular user is causing problems.
I flushed the shared pool, but I still received the same error
message. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

drop user DW_031000 cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4160 bytes of shared memory ("shared
pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","state objects")
shared_pool_size 20971520

Total System Global Area 53216888 bytes
Fixed Size 730744 bytes
Variable Size 50331648 bytes
Database Buffers 819200 bytes
Redo Buffers 1335296 bytes

[m_raj_mohan]

bl******@yahoo.com (Brett Baloun) wrote in message news:<a4**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hello,

I received this error message when I issue the drop statement. We are
using a 9.2.0.3 DB on UNIX OS. I have been able to drop other users
within the same session, but this particular user is causing problems.
I flushed the shared pool, but I still received the same error
message. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

drop user DW_031000 cascade
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4160 bytes of shared memory ("shared
pool","unknown object","sga heap(1,0)","state objects")
shared_pool_size 20971520

Total System Global Area 53216888 bytes
Fixed Size 730744 bytes
Variable Size 50331648 bytes
Database Buffers 819200 bytes
Redo Buffers 1335296 bytes

Hi,

You can try flushing sharedPool . If that doesn't help, you can even
try bouncing the db once.

Keep us posted.

Thanks.