This error is rather common; however, the following error is the error that needs to be resolved. Below you can see several of these errors and their associated error that needs to be resolved. Each of the following errors has their own resolutions.

Here the variable string value was too small.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small

The shared pool size needs to be increased.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 3
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4096 bytes of shared memory (“shared pool”,”select /*+ rule */ bucket_cn…”,”Typecheck heap”,”kgghteInit”)

Related to a user that needs a password change for an active dataguard environment.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-16000: database open for read-only access

Either need to reduce the number of cursors used or increase the open_cursors value.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

If this is related to a materialized view it needs to be truncated and the log purged.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00904: “CURRENT_SCN”: invalid identifier

Something created an empty cursor here and would need to be researched further on a case by case basis.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01003: no statement parsed

I hope this short blog helps someone troubleshoot their issue more quickly by knowing that the ORA-00604 error is not the error that should be researched. If you would like more help fixing your Oracle ORA-00604: Error Occurred at Recursive SQL Level String get in touch with us today!

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