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Wednesday 24 May 2017

Oracle: ORA-01000 Error Message

ORA-01000 Error Message

Learn the cause and how to resolve the ORA-01000 error message in Oracle.

Description

When you encounter an ORA-01000 error, the following error message will appear:
  • ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

Cause

You tried to open too many cursors at once. Each user is restricted to the number of cursors open based on the OPEN_CURSORS parameter in the initialization file.

Resolution

The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:

Option #1

Try to close cursors that you are no longer using before opening new cursors.
For example, you could close a cursor called c1 with the following command:
CLOSE c1;

Option #2

You may need to shut down Oracle, increase the OPEN_CURSORS parameter in the initialization file, and restart Oracle.

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