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I just stumbled upon the “Automatic PGA Memory Management” section of
the 9i docs. I’ve never heard of
this before. Does anyone know how
long it’s been around? Anyone
using it found any bugs, concerns, etc.? Granted, this is intended for *dedicated* server mode, it seems
like a good option for our Test databases and perhaps other databases that have
only a handful of users and don’t require MTS. By setting PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET=X, where X can be a value in
K, M, or G, Oracle will automatically distribute this memory allocation to
dedicated sessions instead of using SORT_AREA_SIZE. Here’s an excerpt from the docs: “Oracle does
not recommend using the Learn something
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