| Oracle9i Database Reference Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96536-02  | 
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 Big integer  | 
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 Default value  | 
 
 48 MB, rounded up to the nearest granule size  | 
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 Dynamic:   | 
DB_CACHE_SIZE specifies the size of the DEFAULT buffer pool for buffers with the primary block size (the block size defined by the DB_BLOCK_SIZE parameter).
The value must be at least the size of one granule (smaller values are automatically rounded up to the granule size). A value of zero is illegal because zero is the size of the DEFAULT pool for the standard block size, which is the block size for the SYSTEM tablespace.