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ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation

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ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation

ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation

Cause:

The memory size was not sufficient to process all the levels of the hierarchy specified by the CONNECT BY clause.

Action:

In WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY=AUTO mode, set PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET to a reasonably larger value. Or, in WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY=MANUAL mode, set SORT_AREA_SIZE to a reasonably larger value.

With this post, I am sharing a very simple tip which I recently used to avoid ORA-30009.

Last week one of my colleague faced ORA-30009 and when he googled following two
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s were given in most of sites:

1. Use Pipeline function using loop instead of CONNECT BY.

2. Increase PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET, because this error came due to shortage of PGA memory.

Both of the above solutions will work, but in many cases ORA-30009 does not require any of above steps and can be fixed by breaking SQL to generate two or more sets of data and then using Cartesian product.

Let's do a quick demo:

ankush@thavali> select count(*) from dual connect by level <= 100000000;

select count(*) from dual connect by level <= 100000000

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation

Great! we faced ORA-30009, now let's fix it :

ankush@thavali> select count(*) from

2 (select level from dual connect by level <= 10000),

3 (select level from dual connect by level <= 10000);

COUNT(*)

----------

100000000

Done!

I hope you have enjoyed this little trick on ORA-30009. Feel free to comment.
OracleDba•

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