Nice, thanks for the update Gaja, I think I have seen that bug... Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Principal Consultant at Pythian Pythian Blog http://www.pythian.com/blog/author/still/ Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha < dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Oracle-L, > > Happy New Year! Last September, I had responded to one of the threads > regarding SGA sizing and in that I had mentioned about Bug#19461270 and > the havoc it created with ORA-4031s when processing DDLs on > interval-partitioned tables. From our internal testing after applying the > patch, it looks like this bug has been fixed. It also looks like for > Oracle Exadata is part of the overlay patch for Bug#20277621. It is > covered as part of BP24. The readme for that is here: > > https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=18424548 > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > > Gaja > > Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha, > CEO & Founder, DBPerfMan LLC > http://www.dbperfman.com > http://www.dbcloudman.com <http://www.dbperfman.com/> > Phone - +1 (650) 743-6060 > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/gvaidyan > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gajakrishnavaidyanatha> > Co-author: Oracle Insights:Tales of the Oak Table - > http://www.apress.com/9781590593875 > Primary Author: Oracle Performance Tuning 101 - > http://www.amzn.com/0072131454 > Enabling Exadata, Big Data and Cloud Deployment & Management for Oracle >