How to fix the Oracle error ORA-08412: error encountered in WMSGBSIZ, size for WMSGBLK is not big enough for warning message?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-08412: error encountered in WMSGBSIZ, size for WMSGBLK is not big enough for warning message with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-08412: error encountered in WMSGBSIZ, size for WMSGBLK is not big enough for warning message

Reason for the Error ORA-08412: error encountered in WMSGBSIZ, size for WMSGBLK is not big enough for warning message

The WMSGBSIZ is the maximun size for warning message block, it is recommanded to be 1024 bytes to 8 kbytes.

How to fix the Error ORA-08412: error encountered in WMSGBSIZ, size for WMSGBLK is not big enough for warning message ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Defined WMSGBLK of size between 1k to 8k bytes and update the WMSGBSIZ to the sizeof(WMSGBLK).