SQL> startup pfile=initaux.ora ORA-00371: not enough shared pool memory, should be at least 16341008384 bytes |
Whenever we start an oracle database instance, it requires memory to allocate some memory components of the SGA so that instance could serve the database and database sessions. If we do not specify size of memory components, we might face errors during instance startup. sga_target is the basing parameter to specify before we start an instance and other memory components like shared pool, buffer cache, or log buffer cache are allocated from the memory allocated to SGA.