# Flushing the shared pool
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To flush the shared pool, use the Amazon RDS procedure `rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_shared_pool`. The `flush_shared_pool` procedure has no parameters. 

The following example flushes the shared pool.

```
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_shared_pool;
```

## Flushing the buffer cache
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To flush the buffer cache, use the Amazon RDS procedure `rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_buffer_cache`. The `flush_buffer_cache` procedure has no parameters. 

The following example flushes the buffer cache.

```
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_buffer_cache;
```

## Flushing the database smart flash cache
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To flush the database smart flash cache, use the Amazon RDS procedure `rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_flash_cache`. The `flush_flash_cache` procedure has no parameters. The following example flushes the database smart flash cache.

```
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.flush_flash_cache;
```

For more information about using the database smart flash cache with RDS for Oracle, see [Storing temporary data in an RDS for Oracle instance store](CHAP_Oracle.advanced-features.instance-store.md).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).