Changing In-Memory size in Oracle Database

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The pre-built virtual machine provided by Oracle for trying out and playing with Oracle Database comes configured to use the In-Memory option. But memory size is a little limited if you are trying to load anything slightly bigger than a tiny table into memory, for example if the table has more than a few hundred rows.

The amount of memory allocated to In-Memory can be increased to allow for more data to be loaded. There is a requirement that the VM and Database has enough memory allocated to allow this. If you don’t and increase the In-Memory size too large, you will have some problems restarting the database and VM. So proceed carefully.

For the pre-built VM, I typically allocate 4G or 8G of RAM to the VM. This in turn will give more memory to the database when it starts.

To setup In-Memory on the VM run the following:

– Open a terminal window and run this command:

sqlplus sys/oracle as sysdba

Then run these two commands

alter session set container = cdb$root;
alter system set inmemory_size = 200M scope=spfile;

Now, bounce the VM, i.e. restart the VM

In-memory will now be enabled on your Database, and you can now create/move tables in and out of in-memory.

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