How to fix the Oracle error ORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory

Reason for the Error ORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory

Sufficient memory could not be allocated to perform the desired activity.

How to fix the Error ORA-12531: TNS:cannot allocate memory ?

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

Either free some resource for TNS, or add more memory to the machine. For further details, turn on tracing and reexecute the operation.